In fact, the idea that one of the Catholic Church’s most respected religious orders might run a public school sounded odd, maybe even, as Francis Cardinal George, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, conjectured, illegal.īut a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic-operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish-based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling 2) equally troubled urban public-school systems were failing to educate most of their students and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors. It wasn’t exactly a marriage made in heaven. Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Podcast: Peter Meyer reports from Chicago, where two public schools have been launched by a Roman Catholic religious order.Īdditional photographs of the Catalyst Schools are available here.
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