Long before anyone had heard of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, Catholic schools in the United States were facing existential challenges of declining enrollment, reduced revenues and increased operating expenses. In some ways, the pandemic ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic was a part of our daily reality, many Catholic schools faced shrinking enrollment and shrinking budgets. Then came March 2020 and, along with it, the final nail in the coffin of ...
Catholic schools have been entrusted with an "awesome responsibility" to teach Gospel values that can help students to recognize, reject and work against racism and other forms of discrimination, Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory told ...
Education leaders imagining how Catholic schools will safely reopen this fall agree on two things: different decisions will be made according to locations and reopening plans may change on short notice. In addition, with so ...
The National Catholic Educational Association is offering its annual conference to participants for free this year with the goal of giving Catholic educators the tools they need to thrive during and after the coronavirus pandemic. ...
While the coronavirus pandemic has proven challenging for schools and parents in educating children, it is also a chance for Catholic schools to confront those challenges with courage, said the Congregation for Catholic Education. "This ...
Catholic education in the United States is needed now more than ever before. That’s a big statement, but we believe it is also an accurate one. The editorial board writes that, in the 21st century, ...
As National Catholic Schools Week approaches, writer Leonard DeLorenzo writes that Catholic schools exist to educate the whole person and to provide an education that contemplates the full meaning of the human person and the ...
The Archbishop of Indianapolis issued a decree June 21 against a Jesuit school that refused to dismiss a gay employee, saying that "with great sadness" the archdiocese no longer recognizes it as a Catholic institution.