Category: Private and Parochial Education
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CSF Alumni Appear in Education Next
We are proud to report that the cover of the latest issue of Education Next features two Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) alums, Denasia Watts and Tiffany Williams. Both young women used CSF scholarships to attend private elementary schools in New York. Denasia will graduate from high school next month and plans to begin college this fall,…
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CSF Chair Mike McCurry Makes Case for Choice
This morning, CSF Chairman Mike McCurry addressed the Alliance for School Choice summit, discussing how he came to be involved with Children’s Scholarship Fund and parental choice. He urged education reformers and policymakers to remain above the fray and focus on the positive stories of children and parents who are helped by scholarships and choice…
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Philanthropy Magazine Cover Story on Choice Features CSF
The latest issue of Philanthropy magazine features a cover story on education reformers who balance charitable giving with advocacy and direct political engagement. In the piece, former CSF Tampa Bay Founder John Kirtley says that when the CSF partner program received more than 12,000 applications for its first 700 scholarships, he became convinced that philanthropy…
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CSF President on Bringing Greater Parental Choice to New York
Note: This blog post originally appeared on Invest in Education’s blog. By CSF President Darla Romfo Catholic Schools Week and National School Choice Week are both being celebrated this week. Sadly, at the 24 New York-area Catholic schools slated to close at the end of this school year, the mood is unlikely to be festive.…
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CSF: A Voice for Choice During National School Choice Week
The third annual National School Choice Week begins today with a Kickoff Celebration in Phoenix featuring none other than the Jonas Brothers. Almost simultaneously, the National School Choice Week Special, a historic railcar, will set off from Union Station in Los Angeles, waving the flag for school choice and pulling in for whistle stop events…
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Help CSF Philadelphia Win $250,000 in the Philly DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards
CSF’s partner, Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP), is competing in the first ever Philly DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards contest and the polls are now open. Up to $250,000 in resources are at stake, and your vote will help CSFP win! To enter the contest, CSFP teamed up with filmmaker Karin Kelly and her team to…
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CSF President Honored by Tri-County Scholarship Fund
This fall, Tri-County Scholarship Fund, a CSF partner program offering private school scholarships to low-income children in Morris, Passaic, and Sussex counties in New Jersey, honored both J. Peter Simon and CSF President Darla Romfo at its annual dinner. More than 600 people came out to support the honorees and the scholarship recipients the Fund…
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CSF Co-Hosts Panel on Stemming School Closures
More than 130 people turned out last week for a panel discussion titled “Saving Catholic Schools,” co-hosted by Children’s Scholarship Fund and three other organizations. The event followed the recent announcement by the Archdiocese of New York that 27 of its schools are at risk of closing at the end of this school year. The…
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CSF’s Fall Newsletter Is Here!
Read all about it! The latest CSF newsletter is hot off the presses. Click through to the Fall 2012 newsletter to read: Updates on CSF alumni graduation rates and the latest studies; Highlights of CSF events in NYC and CSF partner events nationwide; News about the Teddy Forstmann Scholarship Program, launched this fall; And much,…
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CSF Co-Founder John Walton Enters Philanthropy Hall of Fame
Children’s Scholarship Fund is honored to note that our co-founder John T. Walton is one of 50 philanthropists who comprise Philanthropy Roundtable’s newly-launched Hall of Fame. The list of donors honored also includes household names such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, and J.P. Getty as well as some lower-profile philanthropists. But each…