Category: The CSF Family
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CSF Celebrates School Choice Week with Parent Power Event
Last week, CSF celebrated National School Choice Week 2022 with a Parent Power webinar featuring an interview with parent advocate Virginia Walden Ford, conversations with CSF parents and principals from New York CIty and New Hampshire, video testimonials, and a raffle drawing. Virginia Walden Ford, or Miss Virginia as she is known to fans of the…
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Join CSF for a virtual School Choice Week 2022 celebration with NY and NH families!
To celebrate National School Choice Week (January 23-29, 2022) in a safe and socially-distanced way, Children’s Scholarship Fund is hosting a Parent Power Zoom webinar on Tuesday, January 25th! We are bringing together families from New York and New Hampshire to celebrate the fact that parents are the first educators of their children! Attendees will…
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Holiday Gift Idea: Shop Kendra Scott, support CSF scholarships!
The CSF Young Leaders Board has partnered with Kendra Scott. From Wednesday, December 8th, through Friday, December 10th, you can shop Kendra Scott for your holiday jewelry gifts and 20% of the sales will be donated to CSF! If you are in the NYC area, visit the Kendra Scott store at 126 Spring Street on…
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CSF Alumna Lizbeth Rocha Blazes NASCAR Trails
When Lizbeth Rocha began first grade in 2007 as a CSF Scholar at a Staten Island Catholic school, it might have been hard to predict that fourteen years later she would be working as a mechanic for a top NASCAR racing team in North Carolina. Yet that’s exactly what happened. “I knew I wanted to…
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Bonanno and McGinness Elected Co-Chairs of Children’s Scholarship Fund
(Friday, November 5, New York) — Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) announced today that Matthew Bonanno and Margot McGinness have been elected co-chairs of the Board of Directors, succeeding Mike McCurry, who served as Chairman of the board since 2012 and will continue on as a board member. “We are grateful to Mike McCurry for his…
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In His Own Words: CSF Alumnus Francis on Becoming a School Choice Advocate
By Francis J. Connolly Advocacy is something I’ve always been passionate about. As a product of choice in education and after learning that it helped me graduate elementary school and supported me through high school and college, I’ve became a staunch advocate for school choice. Like many of you reading this, I was a product…
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CSF Scholars Go Back to School!
This week marked the first day of school for thousands of CSF Scholars. Happy photos celebrating the event have been pouring into the office and we want to share them with you. Click the video above and be prepared to smile. At a time of much uncertainty, it is encouraging to see the pure joy and…
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CSF Scholars Abigail and Angelie Are Ready for the New School Year
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, it brought new challenges for Kathia Urbina and her family. Both Kathia and her husband lost their jobs during the initial lockdown. Their older daughter Abigail, who has been a CSF Scholar at St. Athanasius School in the Bronx since Kindergarten, was forced to switch to remote learning. Kathia was…
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CSF Celebrates School Choice Week 2021 with Parent Power webinar
In years past, CSF has hosted very boisterous live events celebrating National School Choice Week. Like so many things, this year our celebration was virtual. But based on attendance and feedback, we had a very successful event featuring student testimonials, conversations with CSF parents and principals from participating schools, updates from CSF’s program team, and…
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In New York, Parents Want and Need School Choices for their Kids. So Why Are the City and State Putting Up Roadblocks?
Note: This opinion piece appeared in The 74 on January 25, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed the need for parental choice in education, and nowhere more starkly than in New York. As we saw this spring, when some students adapted quickly to remote learning while others struggled, in education, one size does not fit all.…
