Category: Success Story
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CSF Alumna Isabella: Building on a Strong Academic Foundation
CSF Alumna Isabella Marte recently graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political communications. Isabella benefitted from a CSF scholarship during her elementary school years at Good Shepherd School in Upper Manhattan, and went on to graduate from St. Catharine Academy in the Bronx. Below are Isabella’s remarks as the featured alumni speaker…
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Meet CSF Scholar Logan: Building Character and Community in the Bronx and the Berkshires
Recently, eleven-year-old Logan went camping for the first time with his classmates from The Learning Tree Cultural Preparatory School. For a boy from the Bronx, used to street lights and concrete sidewalks, sleeping in a tent and communing with nature in the Berkshires of Massachusetts was unfamiliar territory. As Logan noted in an interview in…
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From Fight Mode to Flourishing: How One Family Found Peace and Progress with Educational Freedom
Abbey Clegg is a mom to three children: Emilia Jo, Tey, and Corabelle. Like many parents, she hoped her local school would provide the support her youngest daughter needed. But the reality was far more difficult. “Emilia Jo was constantly stressed and in fight mode,” Abbey remembers. “She wasn’t herself.” A full evaluation by the…
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“I Love My School”: One Mom’s Story of Joy, Growth, and the Power of Educational Freedom
CSF New Hampshire Mom Natalie is raising three children, including an adult son with autism. Looking back, she remembers the frustration of watching him navigate a public school system that didn’t meet his needs. “The class sizes were huge,” she says. “I always felt stuck, unable to give him the kind of education I knew…
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CSF Scholarship Served as a Nexus Point for Alumnus Hansel Lopez
CSF Alumnus Hansel Lopez was one of the first CSF Scholars in New York City, using his scholarship to attend Mount Carmel-Holy Rosary School in East Harlem beginning in seventh grade. He went on to graduate from Rice High School, Cornell University, and Florida International University, launching a career in marketing and advertising. He now…
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CSF Alumni Travel to Norway for Oslo Freedom Forum
Two CSF alumni, Isabella Marte and Aziz Oguntade, recently traveled to Oslo, Norway to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) as the winners of a CSF alumni essay contest generously sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), which hosts the OFF. After the eight-hour flight, Isabella and Aziz arrived in Oslo jet-lagged but determined to…
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CSF Alumnus Antoine is selected as an AFC Future Leaders Fellow
We’re incredibly proud to announce that CSF Alumnus Antoine Peralta Castro has been selected to join the latest cohort of the American Federation for Children’s (AFC) Future Leaders Fellows program. According to AFC, the fellowship is designed “to identify and develop tomorrow’s leaders in the educational choice movement, those who can speak best to its…
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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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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 Alumni Network with Supporters at Penn Club Event
At a networking event at the Penn Club this winter, three alumni shared how their scholarships helped shape their future paths.
