Category: General News
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CSF Celebrates School Choice Week 2021 with Parent Power webinar
In years past, CSF has hosted very boisterous live events celebrating National School Choice Week. Like so many things, this year our celebration was virtual. But based on attendance and feedback, we had a very successful event featuring student testimonials, conversations with CSF parents and principals from participating schools, updates from CSF’s program team, and…
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In New York, Parents Want and Need School Choices for their Kids. So Why Are the City and State Putting Up Roadblocks?
Note: This opinion piece appeared in The 74 on January 25, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed the need for parental choice in education, and nowhere more starkly than in New York. As we saw this spring, when some students adapted quickly to remote learning while others struggled, in education, one size does not fit all.…
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CSF will celebrate School Choice Week with a Parent Power webinar
To celebrate National School Choice Week (January 24-30, 2021) in a safe and socially-distanced way, Children’s Scholarship Fund is hosting a Parent Power Zoom webinar on Thursday, January 28th! Attendees will hear from parents, school leaders, CSF Scholars, alumni, and CSF staff at this special event celebrating the fact that parents are the first educators…
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Behind the Mask, Holiday Episode
Missed today’s episode of Behind the Mask? Click above to visit Times Square with CSF Scholars Andrew and Eric of Guardian Angel School, see student artwork from Our Lady of Lourdes School, and hear music from The Nutcracker performed by the Sacred Heart School Quintet. Thank you to CSF Alumna Nicole Serrato for hosting and…
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Donor Spotlight: Teen Tutors of Goshen
High school students Jolina Dong and Kiara Paulino recently formed a tutoring business, Teen Tutors of Goshen, to help K-8 students in need of extra academic support amid the pandemic – and they are donating 20 percent of what they make to Children’s Scholarship Fund. The girls always planned to save some of their earnings…
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CSF Launches the Founders’ Legacy Society
The founders of Children’s Scholarship Fund, Ted Forstmann and John Walton (pictured above), left a profound legacy when they established a program in 1998 that enabled low-income parents to choose a better academic path for their children. Though Ted and John are no longer with us, their legacy lives on thanks to the long-term commitment…
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Behind the Mask, CSF’s new webinar series
This fall, even though we are grateful to note the majority of CSF participating schools are offering in-person instruction five days a week, safety dictates that we cannot visit schools or host in-person events to connect you with students and their families. That’s why we decided to launch a new webinar series called Behind the Mask…
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This October, CSF Scholars are lighting up Times Square
Thanks to Morgan Stanley, CSF Scholars and alumni are lighting up Times Square! All through October, a message featuring CSF will play several times each hour on the signage at Morgan Stanley’s global headquarters as part of the financial firm’s Lights on Broadway program, which helps build awareness for the non-profits the company supports. Watch…
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CSF Scholars go back to school!
Thousands of CSF Scholars went back to school this week. Even more exciting, a majority of them are back in the classroom in person, with many improvements in the virtual experience for those who chose to remain learning remotely for the time being. During these challenging times, the back to school photos they’re sharing are even more…
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Young Leaders Board Members Advise CSF Alumni Virtually
Over the summer, members of CSF’s Young Leaders Board offered guidance to CSF alumni through a series of Zoom webinars focused on preparing for college and careers, sharing their own experiences and answering questions from alumni now in high school and college. Below are some of the words of wisdom shared by the panelists. “Take…
