Category: Private and Parochial Education
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Catch Up with the Latest CSF Newsletter
Read all about it! The latest CSF newsletter is hot off the presses. Newsletter highlights include: A tribute to CSF Co-Founder Ted Forstmann; Updates from our partners across the nation; Photos from a recent CSF alumni event; A reminder about our Pamella Roland online auction; And a feature on St. George’s Independent School in Memphis.
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John Kirtley on Ted Forstmann’s Legacy
Tributes to CSF’s co-founder Ted Forstmann have been pouring in today. redefinED has a touching piece by John Kirtley, Chairman of Florida’s Step Up for Students, about his experience working with Ted and CSF to form a CSF partner program in Tampa Bay – and how CSF was the “spark” for tax credit and voucher…
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CSF in Today’s Wall Street Journal
Be sure to read Daniel Henninger’s column about Children’s Scholarship Fund in today’s Wall Street Journal. The article, “Forstmann’s Not So Little Idea,” recounts the story of how Ted Forstmann and John Walton founded CSF on the belief that parents should be actively involved in their children’s education: Mr. Forstmann has long argued that all…
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John E. Coons on Parental Authority
redefinED has a great post on parental authority by John E. Coons. co-founder of the American Center for School Choice at Berkeley. What Coons says about the value of parents at all income levels making choices for how their children are educated (and the negative effects of parents not having choices) is borne out in…
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A Former Student Reports to the Principal’s Office
By Darla Romfo, CSF President I just had lunch with the new principal for St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem (where 45 CSF Scholars attended in 2010-11), and was reminded again of why we do what we do at CSF!! The new principal’s name is Antwan Allen, and he actually attended St. Mark’s from…
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Graduation Season for CSF Scholars
Here at CSF, the graduation season is in full swing. Almost every day, we hear from another CSF 8th grader who is graduating from private elementary school. All of our graduates are looking forward to high school and most are already thinking about college. We are encouraged to note that the National Center for Education…
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Ladner’s Moynihan Challenge
Five years ago, Dr. Matthew Ladner laid down a challenge: if anyone could prove to him that private school choice programs had a negative impact on children, he would buy them a steak dinner. So has anyone been able to prove that allowing children the opportunity to attend private school has been harmful? Well, to…
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1999 CSF Scholar Joins Class of 2011
What a pleasant surprise it was to open the mail yesterday and find a college graduation announcement for Matthew P., one of the very first CSF Scholars back in 1999. Matthew is graduating this Friday from California State University, Dominguez Hills with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, and now he plans to go on…
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CSF Celebrates with Friends of Nick
This week, CSF had the pleasure of joining our friends at Friends of Nick at their annual awards ceremonies where they announce essay contest winners who will win 4-year private high school scholarships (quite an honor!). Friends of Nick is a character building program created in memory of the late Nicholas C. Forstmann (brother of…
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City Journal Highlights Catholic Schools
In the latest City Journal, Sol Stern and Patrick McCloskey argue for more investment in Catholic schools, which provide a high-quality education for many low-income children in urban areas. Read it here! From Stern: “How much is it worth to New York to retain schools that are dealing with questions so essential to our society?…