Posted on 07/25/2013 3:59:56 AM PDT by markomalley
In an unprecedented move, the Archdiocese of New York is trying to save six cash-strapped elementary schools by allowing an outside organization to run them.
The Partnership for Inner-City Education — which has a history of working with city Catholic schools — is contracting with the archdiocese to manage the finances and oversee the academic curriculums of the schools in the Bronx and Harlem starting this fall.
“We want to have full enrollment and sustainability for the very long term,” said Jill Kafka, executive director of the nonprofit. “We’re really looking to have these schools alive for a long time.”
It’s the first time that an independent group will take control of New York City parochial schools, with power to oversee the hiring and firing of teachers and staff. The terms of the current teachers’ union contract still stand, officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
The terms of the current teachers’ union contract still stand, officials said.
These two sentences seem to contradict one another.
“I guess that’s all she wrote on parochial schools in the City...”
Here in northern NJ we just close the schools and rent them to the public school district; the same kids can go to school there but without God (and the diocese gets rich).
They threw away whole generations of Catholic souls; that is why they want to import replacements...
Here ... here are the keys ... don't break it and bring it back with a full tank
Interesting, but IMO that happened quite some time ago:
....[Bishop John Joseph Hughes] immediately stirred up a war over the city’s schools, then run by the Public School Society. Though the society received state funding, it was essentially a private Protestant organization that taught Protestantism and used the Protestant Bible. Worse, from Hughes’s point of view, it had pupils read such books as The Irish Heart, which taught that “the emigration from Ireland to America of annually increasing numbers, extremely needy, and in many cases drunken and depraved, has become a subject for all our grave and fearful reflection.” Hughes (with the support of New York’s 12,000 Jews) wanted an end to such sectarian education, and he wanted, above all, state aid for Catholic schools, just as the state had funded denominational schools before 1826 (with no one dreaming of calling such aid unconstitutional). The outcome of the struggle pleased no one: the Maclay Bill of 1842 barred all religious instruction from public schools and provided no state money to denominational schools.
-- from the article How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish....1841 was an election year in the state of New York. Five days before the election, at a Catholic rally at Carroll Hall, [then-bishop John Joseph Hughes] presented his parishioners with a list of the candidates he favored for council and urged them to vote for them....
....The Constitution gave Hughes the right to advise his parishioners how to vote, but the Protestant establishment was outraged at what they saw as priestly meddling in politics. Leading the attack, James Gordon Bennett, editor of The New York Herald....
....Hughes's politicking paid off. All but three of the candidates he had supported were elected. In April 1842, the state passed the Maclay bill. By a majority of just one, New York's Senate voted to end religious instruction in New York's public schools....
-- excerpts from Hour Two of the PBS broadcast God In America
See Leo XIII: Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (Virtue, Nature and Grace, and Americanism) http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13teste.htm
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This looks like a similar program to what their doing in Philadelphia to good success.
I recommend that whole series. It’s available on Netflix.
What viewers will see, that’s missing in your snippet, is that the city’s public school students were being indoctrinated in anti-Catholocism.
This is sad. I teach for a parochial school here in Texas, and we are seeing excellent increases in enrollment. Of course, we also teach the Catechism.
I would advise all the Catholics not to send their children to these schools, and investigate faithful alternatives.
How do you define “good success”?
I would advise all the Catholics not to send their children to these schools, and investigate faithful alternatives.
I presume that you meant "not send their children to other schools"? It sounds like you're warning people away from the school system you teach in!
Reading is an important skill
So is grammar :)
The only one who had trouble understanding is you.
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