Category: Private and Parochial Education
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CSF Scholar in the Wall Street Journal
Good news! This morning, CSF Scholar Uziel Dominguez was featured in a Wall Street Journal story about the REACH program, which helps prepare academically gifted boys starting in fifth grade to apply to New York’s highly selective Regis High School. He will begin his freshman year at Regis (which is tuition free) in a few weeks. Uziel…
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CSF Parents in New York Report High Levels of Satisfaction with Schools
Recently, CSF surveyed scholarship families in New York about their experience with their schools and CSF as well as their involvement in their children’s education. More than 770 parents and guardians completed the survey online and on paper. Notable findings include: 98.5 percent said their CSF scholarships help them make the best educational choices for…
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Opportunity and Hope featured on Newsmax TV
Watch author Naomi Schaefer Riley and CSF-Charlotte alum Silas Farley discuss the new book, Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children’s Lives through Scholarships, on Newsmax TV’s Steve Malzberg Show.
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School Magic
Discussions of education reform more often center on policy than philanthropy.
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Opportunity for All
Anthony Samuels grew up surrounded by crime in the Bronx. Without the support he received from the Children’s Scholarship Fund, launched in 1998 through the efforts of philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John Walton, he never would have been able to attend Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Instead, he tells Naomi Schaefer Riley in her…
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Opinion: What Do Students Think About School Choice?
New York Post Columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses her new book on the Children’s Scholarship Fund. Watch the video at The Wall Street Journal site.
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Introducing Opportunity and Hope, a New Book by Naomi Schaefer Riley
Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) is pleased to announce the publication of Opportunity and Hope: Transforming Children’s Lives through Scholarships by Naomi Schaefer Riley, author, former Wall Street Journal editor, and columnist for the New York Post. In this new book, Ms. Riley profiles ten young men and women from across America whose lives were improved…
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Champions for Children Kicks Off Super Bowl Week
On a chilly night a few days before the Super Bowl, Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) gathered supporters and friends at the New York Athletic Club for our first Champions for Children reception. New York sports legends Ottis “O.J.” Anderson (Super Bowl MVP & former New York Giant) and Earl “The Pearl” Monroe (NBA Hall of…
