Category: Private and Parochial Education
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Twenty Days to Kick Off Celebration of Twenty Years!
First day of school photos of CSF Scholars are coming in, and they show bright, happy faces eager to learn! This year’s CSF Scholars join a rich legacy of educational opportunity that began in 1998 when John Walton and Ted Forstmann first launched CSF. That’s right, CSF will mark its 20-year anniversary in 2018. Over…
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Q & A with CSF Alumna Martina
CSF Alumna Martina Amate Perez attended St. Paul School with a CSF scholarship and is currently a sophomore at Aquinas High School. What are your goals for the future? My goals for the future are to be accepted into an Ivy League university and then into law school. However, my ultimate goal in life…
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CSF President Darla Romfo’s op-ed on federal tax credit appears in The Hill
Today, The Hill published an op-ed by CSF President Darla M. Romfo titled, “Tax-credit scholarships: America’s chance for a 50-state education win.” We rightfully talk a great deal about income inequality in this country, as well as the need to improve education, particularly among low-income children. Bridging the income gap starts with providing a solid…
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CSF Celebrates School Choice Week in New Hampshire
Yesterday, CSF celebrated National School Choice Week in New Hampshire with a coalition of educational organizations, schools, and families. The group of about 200 heard from special guest Governor Chris Sununu, who spoke about the need for parents to have educational options for their children and how his own family has experienced public and private schools, as well…
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New Hampshire Event Celebrates CSF’s Success
Last Thursday, scholarship recipients, families, and supporters gathered at the Falls Event Center in Manchester to celebrate the success of Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) and the difference scholarships are making in the lives of CSF Scholars and their families in New Hampshire. Several CSF parents and students were on hand to share their experiences…
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Hats Off to CSF’s Participating Schools
By CSF President Darla M. Romfo This week we had the opportunity to host representatives from several largely independent private schools where CSF supports children on scholarship. The purpose of the meetings was to get the schools more familiar with our new scholarship management data base, but it ended up being an opportunity for our schools…
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New Study Finds CSF Alumni Persist in College
We are very pleased to share the results of a new study on Children’s Scholarship Fund alumni from New York and Omaha by Stanford professor Eric Bettinger and his team. Although we internally survey our scholarship alumni annually to find out if they graduate high school on time and what their ongoing plans are, this…
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CSF Celebrates 3rd Champions for Children Benefit
On March 15th, Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) honored Lewis S. Ranieri, Chairman and Founder of Tomorrow’s Hope Foundation, and New York State Assemblyman Marcos A. Crespo, co-sponsor of New York’s education tax credit legislation, at our third annual Champions for Children benefit at Bryant Park Grill in Midtown Manhattan. Guests were welcomed with musical performances…
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CSF Mom Camille Talks Scholarships and Tax Credits in Albany
CSF Mom Camille Hastick-Ortiz traveled to Albany this week with a group from Macademy School of Science and Technology in Brooklyn to meet with legislators and discuss the Education Scholarship Tax Credit legislation currently under consideration in Albany. Camille’s son, Daniel, is a CSF Scholar in Kindergarten at Macademy, and loves school so much he…
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Remembering Andrew Coulson
By CSF President Darla M. Romfo It was only after hearing about Andrew’s death that I realized he must have been no more than 30 when he wrote the very compelling book, Market Education: The Unknown History. I knew when Ted Forstmann gave me a copy to read in 1999 that it must be an important book and that…
