At Forbes, Daniel R. Porterfield writes about the success of the Cristo Rey Network of Jesuit schools:

What was brand new about Cristo Rey, however, was the Jesuits’ idea for financing the enterprise—by recruiting businesses all across Chicago to pay a flat fee to the school in exchange for having on-site one student-worker per day drawn from a well-supervised four-person work team.
 

No one knew if this would work, but when the employers and students took to it, a new school-based anti-poverty program was born.

Cristo Rey’s dedicated teachers delivered a rigorous curriculum necessary for college success.

 

Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including America, Commonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).Articles:Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)Posts at The Ignatian Educator