Category: Private and Parochial Education
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CSF Debuts New Video
Just before last week’s screening of Won’t Back Down, CSF debuted our new motion graphic video, The Children’s Scholarship Fund Solution. Watch the video to see how CSF is tackling the education crisis and how CSF scholarships are empowering parents to choose better schools for their children, putting them on the path to a better…
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National Commission on Faith-Based Schools Launches
Today, the American Center for School Choice is launching its National Commission on Faith-Based Schools. The ecumenical commission of leaders, which includes CSF President Darla Romfo, plans to collaborate and inject the importance of full parental choice in education into the national dialogue. According to an ACSC press release, the Commission’s two immediate tasks will…
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New Study Finds Private Scholarships Increase College Enrollment for African-Americans
We have some great news to report. A groundbreaking new study from Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson finds that private scholarships, just like those CSF offers, significantly increase the chances that African-American students will go on to graduate from high school and enroll in college. Released today, this is the first study using…
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Dreams. Opportunities. Results.
The theme of Children’s Scholarship Fund’s 2011-12 annual report is simple: Dreams + Opportunities = Results. At the Children’s Scholarship Fund, we’ve seen that the powerful combination of dreams and opportunities leads to results that are both measurable and heartwarming. In this year’s annual report, you can read about the positive impact CSF scholarships are…
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CSF Philadelphia Takes Part in Romney’s Education Roundtable
CSF Philadelphia (CSFP) Board President and CSF National Board Member Evie McNiff participated in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s education roundtable, held at a Philadelphia charter school yesterday. At the event, Romney voiced his support for high-quality parental choice in education, calling for federal funds to follow every child, whether their parents want to send…
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In Defense of Tax Credit Scholarship Programs
By CSF President Darla Romfo Stephanie Saul’s article about Georgia’s tax credit scholarship program in today’s New York Times highlights some troubling aspects of the administration of private school scholarships in that state. We want to point out that tax credit scholarship programs vary in design, and Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) supports well-designed tax credit…
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Celebrating CSF Partner Program Events!
CSF partner programs across the country are busy signing up new families for scholarships starting next fall and shepherding current scholarship recipients through the requalification process. But several are also celebrating their successes with gala lunches, dinners, and graduations. Here’s a line-up of CSF partner program special events this spring: This past Wednesday, CSF Portland held…
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CSF Philadelphia Awards 2,000 New Scholarships
Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP) has just awarded 2,000 brand new scholarships for the 2012-13 school year! Take a moment to watch this story from WPVI-ABC6 in Philadelphia and listen to what some of the newest scholarship recipients have to say about the program. You’ll also meet Anthony Samuel, a CSFP alum now studying accounting…
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CSF President Darla Romfo Interviewed on Newsmax TV
Today, CSF’s President Darla Romfo appears in an exclusive interview on Newsmax speaking about the work and mission of the Children’s Scholarship Fund. Since CSF’s inception in 1998, almost 123,000 low-income children have been given a chance to transform their lives with scholarships to attend private schools, a true testament to CSF’s co-founders, Ted Forstmann…
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CSF Celebrates National School Choice Week
This week’s second annual National School Choice Week has been a resounding success, shining a spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children. Events in every state have drawn national figures including Bill Cosby, Dick Morris, and James Carville in support of parental choice, governors have issued proclamations, and thousands of Americans…