Category: Private and Parochial Education
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CSF Scholars Go Back to School!
CSF Scholars are back in school! Click the video below to see some of the photos their families have been sending in. It is heartening to see such happy faces full of hope and enthusiasm for the year of learning ahead. A special thank you to all the CSF supporters who make it possible…
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Highlights from CSF’s Palm Beach event
Last week, Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) hosted an event in Palm Beach, Florida at the home of CSF Board Member Remy Trafelet and his wife, Missy. It was a lovely opportunity to introduce CSF’s work to a wider audience. For 25 years, CSF has been providing scholarships so that low-income children can attend a better school. CSF…
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Forbes piece by Kerry McDonald highlights CSF participating schools
Author Kerry McDonald highlights Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) and several CSF participating schools in a new Forbes piece, “The Not-So-Secret World Of Low-Cost New York City Private Schools,” out today. McDonald, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and host of the LiberatED Podcast, regularly covers innovative schools all over the country, and we are…
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CSF Parents Travel to State Capitol for School Choice Week Celebration
This Tuesday, a group of CSF parents travelled from New York City to Albany to celebrate School Choice Week, joining forces with parents from across the state to share their stories with elected officials and raise awareness of the need for greater educational freedom for all New York children. The parents met with State Senators, Assembly Members,…
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CSF President Darla Romfo calls for greater educational freedom in Daily News op-ed
In today’s New York Daily News, an op-ed by CSF President and CEO Darla Romfo, “Let parents choose their kids’ schools,” spotlights the often-overlooked diversity of the private schools CSF Scholars attend and calls on our leaders to make schools like these accessible to more families through school choice. The piece concludes: “The schools referenced here and hundreds of…
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CSF President Darla Romfo: We need education freedom to combat learning loss and achievement gaps
Speaking with Edward Lawrence on Cavuto Coast to Coast last week, CSF President Darla Romfo discussed how Covid school closures continue to have negative effects on children’s learning, following a recent report that finds pandemic learning loss will lead to reduced lifetime earnings. She called for more school choice as a way to narrow achievement gaps and…
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Declining NAEP results underscore need for education freedom
Yesterday, 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results were released, confirming that learning loss for American children during the pandemic has been significant and widespread. The results find only 36% of fourth graders and 26% of eighth graders are proficient in math – representing the largest decline in math scores since NAEP began testing in 1990. Reading…
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CSF President tells Fox & Friends that parents are the first educators of their children
CSF President Darla Romfo appeared on Fox & Friends this morning, discussing the need for education freedom for parents who want alternatives for their children. Speaking with co-host Ainsley Earhardt, Darla emphasized the role of parents as the first educators of their children and called for rethinking the status quo: “We all pay taxes and the…
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CSF applauds the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of educational freedom
We at Children’s Scholarship Fund want to join the chorus of excited voices supporting yesterday’s Carson v. Makin decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled that Maine families participating in the state’s Town Tuitioning Program should be allowed to choose religious schools as well as other types of non-government schools. Ted Forstmann and John Walton founded…
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CSF President: The majority of Americans agree on parental choice in education
Last night, CSF President Darla Romfo appeared on Fox Business Tonight with host David Asman, speaking about the need for parental choice in education: “We need to fight for parents’ rights. The idea that parents don’t have a right to say something about their children’s education? That’s just un-American. They’re the first educators of their children. The family…
