Bloomberg reports today that Robert Wilson – known as one of the great stock investors of the last 50 years, the now-retired peer of Warren Buffet and George Soros—gave $5.6 million to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York this summer to set up fundraising programs for Catholic schools. “Most of what the Catholic schools [...]
Daniel Henninger has a great little video piece about the Cristo Rey schools. He has a column about it in the WSJ as well. (Google “How About a Good Catholic Story” — don’t forget the quotations marks– for the full text.) Cristo Rey is a system of 24 Jesuit high schools that offers a college-prep [...]
Samuel Freedman’s On Religion piece at the NYT–an interesting take on Diane Ravitch’s new must-read– argues that the proliferation of free charter schools hurts urban tuition-charging Catholic schools. Not all alternatives to failing public schools are equal, though, and Catholic schools are still the only ones to offer the things that public schools– by definition– [...]