Seton & Notre Dame Symposium on Financing Urban Catholic Schools
Seton Education Partners and the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame co-hosted a symposium for over 100 Catholic education leaders on “Financing At-Risk Catholic and Faith-based Schools,” held at the University of Notre Dame, September 20-22, 2009. The symposium explored whether philanthropy, tax credits and vouchers, and/or leases to public charter schools (or other leasing/operating changes) can become the answer to the steady extinction of inner-city Catholic and other faith-based schooling. Bishop Thomas Curry, chair of the Education Committee for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gave the dinner keynote address. Dr. Anthony Bryk, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, spoke about the opportunity he sees in public charter school laws for the future of urban Catholic education.
Below are pictures from the event.
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Financing At-Risk Catholic and Faith-based Schools:
Exploring Alternatives to School Closure
Seton co-hosts a conference on financing at-risk faith-based schools at the University of Notre Dame.
Bishop Thomas Curry, Education Committee, USCCB
Bro. Ed Siderewicz, FSC, of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and Fr. Ron Nuzzi of the University of Notre Dame's Mary Ann Remick Leaderhip Program
Fr. Timothy Scully, CSC, Alliance for Catholic Education, University of Notre Dame
Betsy Bohlen of McKinsey & Company moderates a discussion on converting at-risk Catholic schools into charters.
Darla Romfo, Children's Scholarship Fund
Stephanie Saroki, Seton Education Partners
Leo Linbeck III, Aquinas Corporation, LLC
Aaron Brenner, KIPP Houston
Mary Claire Ryan, NativityMiguel Network of Schools
Clark Durant, Cornerstone Schools
