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Many Catholic schools, however, are following in the steps of their public brethren and trying to survive by changing the way they do business. Mandating that students work to pay off tuition, forging partnerships with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts - these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school-closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located...
Some dioceses are - to use education reformers' favorite action verb - innovating. Last year, in a controversial and mostly untested move, seven Catholic schools in Washington converted to charter schools. In Miami, eight schools have followed the same route. In Wichita, Kans., which still has a strong Catholic community, parishioners are encouraged to give a certain percentage of their salary to the diocese, which allows for tuition-free schooling for Catholics and lower tuition costs for non-Catholics. As a result, the diocese has not closed any schools in the past decade...
...some ways, the Catholic-school problem mirrors that of charter schools, a sector that is essentially competing for many of the same urban students. And Catholic schools have their own charterlike success stories, the most notable being Cristo Rey, a network of 24 schools focused on "breaking the sin of poverty." These schools have a unique program that requires students to work one day a week with a corporate sponsor in order to subsidize their tuition, which is kept as low as possible as a result of the labor...
...harass Princeton students, with a fifth incident of lewdness just this year occurring on Monday. The incident: a shirtless middle-aged man, whom students described him as having “grayish-brown hair” and “a protruding stomach,” exposed himself outside Charter Cub. Honestly, who are these people...
...other issues in the student body, and the UC needs to apply ourselves to those,” said Cabot House representative and social space project proponent Senan Ebrahim ’12. ”We thought that [SCCF] is optimal because it has a charter that is dedicated specifically to the [social spaces project...