“If Catholic schools were a state, they’d be the highest performing in the nation on all four N.A.E.P. tests,” Kathleen Porter-Magee, the superintendent of Partnership Schools, pointed out on Twitter.
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Posted inFaith, News
Catholic, Muslim and Jewish schools in New York are lobbying ‘with one voice’ for STEM education funding
Advocates from three faith traditions lobbied together for a program that would help fund science and math education in New York state’s religious schools.
Posted inFaith, News
Federal judge sides with Catholic school over guidance counselor’s firing over same-sex union
U.S. District Judge Richard Young said the Indianapolis Archdiocese and its schools can select, retain or dismiss faculty according to their religious standards.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis names Portuguese cardinal new head of Vatican office for Culture and Education
The cardinal who, until now, served as the Vatican’s chief archivist and librarian, had long been rumored to be named prefect of this newly created Vatican office.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Can school vouchers help Catholic schools fulfill their mission? Our readers weigh in.
Readers respond to our September editorial, “Catholic Education on the Margins,” on school voucher programs.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
When Detroit’s Catholic schools started moving to the suburbs, one Jesuit high school stayed. It’s made all the difference.
There were once over 30 Catholic high schools in the city of Detroit. There are now three.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: The Gregorian’s new Jesuit leader on the university’s mission to implement Vatican II reforms
The new rector, Mark Lewis, S.J., also opened up about the Gregorian’s upcoming merger with the Pontifical Biblical and Oriental Institutes.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The Gregorian has educated 28 saints and 16 popes. But the new Jesuit rector doesn’t think that is the school’s most important legacy
An exclusive interview with Mark Lewis, S.J., 62, a historian and only the second Jesuit from the United States to be rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
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Pronouns, uniforms and bathrooms: How Catholic schools are facing questions of gender identity
Several Catholic school districts throughout the United States are grappling with changes around gender identity, and in some systems, students and staff are now subject to new policies about gender.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Indiana court sides with Catholic diocese in case of teacher fired for being in a same-sex marriage
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled that a Catholic high school was protected from being sued by a teacher who was fired for being in a same-sex marriage.