New Project to Increase the Number of Hispanics in Catholic Schools
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The Catholic school advantage
Catholic schools serve Latino students well, offering a “Catholic school advantage.” Latinos who attend Catholic school are 42 percent more likely to graduate from high school and two-and-a-half times more likely to graduate from college.
Despite the Catholic school advantage, only 3% of Latinos send their children to Catholic schools. This represents an opportunity to more fully serve Latino children through Catholic education.
In response, The University of Notre Dame has launched a campaign to double the percentage of Latino children enrolled in Catholic schools in the next 10 years, raising the number of Latino children enrolled to 1 Million.
This is a national task force commissioned by Notre Dame, which launched a campaign last Saturday, December 12.
The Catholic School Advantage campaign comes out of a 65-page report that the task force released the same day: “To Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic Schools and Educational Opportunity.”
A key finding of the report showed that while more than 75 percent of Latinos in the U.S. are Catholic, only 3 percent of Latino children currently attend Catholic schools while public schools across the country have seen a rapid growth in the number of Hispanics.
The report also indicated public schools have not served Latino students well, saying they are behind their peers on most measures of educational achievement.
To improve education outcomes for more Latino children, the task force seeks to double that 3 percent in Catholic schools to 6 percent — from 290,000 to 1 million — in the next decade.
The task force was established one year ago by Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame. It is co-chaired by Holy Cross Father Joseph Corpora, director of university-school partnerships for Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education.
The task force includes more than 50 national leaders representing the Latino community, the Catholic Church, academia, government, business, philanthropy, and elementary and secondary education.
Two programs at Notre Dame will support the campaign: the university’s Latino Institute for Studies and the Alliance for Catholic Education, known as ACE, which places college graduates as volunteer teachers in Catholic schools. University officials said Notre Dame hopes to forge partnerships with dioceses to implement recommendations to boost enrollment in Catholic schools.
According to the announcement on the campaign, the Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to join the campaign and discussions are under way with five other dioceses that serve large Hispanic populations. The campaign will be led by Father Corpora, a former pastor with nearly 20 years experience in parishes and schools that serve Latino communities.
The task force spent the past year conducting research and developing recommendations for schools, dioceses, church leaders, the philanthropic community, civic organizations, policymakers and institutions of higher education. The research ultimately provides as a road map for getting more Latino students in Catholic schools.
Financial obstacles are just one barrier, the report said. Other barriers include a lack of information about Catholic schools and a lack of a cultural or leadership connection between the Latino community and schools that lack Latino teachers, principals and board members.
The task force recommended several steps to reduce barriers starting with increased recruitment efforts through activities like school functions that reach out to Latino families. It also recommends renewed efforts to make schools more affordable through scholarships or voucher initiatives.
Read here the entire report: “To Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic Schools and Educational Opportunity.”
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Excellent campaign and a very interesting report!
Catholic schools are better equipped to serve our children and their education. They provide high quality education, leadership and guidance that can help lead our youth to successful futures.
More Hispanics in paraochial schools will most certainly mean an increase in violence, theft, and other crimes. Graffitti in the church pews! It will be just a matter of time before they resort to their Marxist tactics and demand bilingual education in classrooms. Mexican Trotskyite priests preaching Reconquista in their sermons. Absolutely scary.
Fine example of the modern conservative ideology. Like this individual, many can be found amongst teabaggers, gop, minutemen, nra, sadly I could go on and on. Many of the opinion articles here are tinge with this kind of insinuations, so repugnantly demonstrated by this specimen of racist here calling him self BIFF WILLIAMS .
But, lets see what the conservatives here have to say.
get a grip and get over yourself. This one guy doesn’t represent or speak for all conservatives. Just like you don’t speak for all liberals. Generalize much? You really believe the Democratic Party isn’t “racist” with the level of enslavement it has over minorities? Control is the palabra honey and they make sure they “control” minorities. Read a few more articles on this site. I’ve been a fan since the beginning and it seems you’ve missed many. Do your research properly big mouth before you look stupid, oh sorry too late!
Does the “i” stand for idiota?
Monica You direct this at ME… ?!? Classic move…
YES YOU! “Classic” is your liberal rear end trolling this web site. Now, do you care to directly answer me or dance around in rhetoric? I’m guessing you will stick to your liberal fashion and dance the rhetoric tango, no? Perhaps you should read my previous comment again since you seem clueless and don’t get it. Ja!
“More Hispanics in paraochial schools will most certainly mean an increase in violence, theft, and other crimes. Graffitti in the church pews! It will be just a matter of time before they resort to their Marxist tactics and demand bilingual education in classrooms. Mexican Trotskyite priests preaching Reconquista in their sermons. Absolutely scary.”
When are YOU going to address some of your indignation to this idiot over this obviously racist statement ??
Or is it the you actually have friends like this guy given all we know about you so far?? So, JA ! No Backsies
Why do I have to address it? So if I don’t I must agree? How backwards and stupid is your logic? Goodness, you sure love a long-shot! I addressed you but it seems you can’t take it and want me to go after el tonto Biff. Do you address every racist comment from a liberals lips? Huh, do you? Let me get this straight, you’re the “racist” police? Buddy go back and review some of your statements. You enjoy being a Democrat’s slave. It suits you, no?
All you know about me? Are you insane? You don’t know anything about me.
but coming after me IS something that you would do obviously…
I’m beginning to see where your priorities ans sense of outrage originates from…
You leave me no choice. I must resort to your level to deal with a troll. You are looking to make conservatives look bad based on one or two comments by biased individuals; not on my watch you liberal troll ipastor. I like this site and many writers and I refuse to let the likes of you ruin something I enjoy! You are being unfair to many people and it’s wrong.
No, No conservatives makes themselves look bad ALL ON THEIR OWN, Mr. ipastor pedito sniffer says.
Although not Surprising given what we’ve seen in teabags rallies, I have to say that I wasn’t expecting to reduce an adult conservative to child level tactics… that wasn’t hard at all. I can only think that I’m succeeding at getting through you. I congratulate my self for this, anyone care to join me.
OH Yeah. There is an ioveja jumping around in her own dreams somewhere…
I have fans here too…LMliberalAO!!
Ipastor, you have been childish all along! You’re a sad troll. Now go face yourself in the mirror knowing your life consists of trolling web sites. I bet you have the chicas lined up to meet you. Ja!
just you coming back for more
it seems YOU come back for more. Welcome!
I’ll be around soon. See you later liberal troll. Try to get a few brain cells going before we “meet” again ipedito.
any time gordita… that’s how I like bets to think of you…;)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ipastor01?action=comments
Monica, if I were you I would not waste one minute with this wannabe…
johnny , johnny don’t be jealous Monica or the dude calling him self Monica (we know how you Repubs are closet everything) is not your kid…
furthermore NO ONE, NO ONE has to acknowledge that I’m here, although I will continue to be here expressing the opinion of this “Hispanic” for it has been solicited by Newt Gingrich him self …
last thing, wannabe to what…?? I must infer that you are the all that can it be of something…
When you say “gordita”, are you talking about yourself or about your cows?
no, he is talkig about himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-cAy24MEuM
Monica, I am with you. The wannabe is really boring.