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Archbishop Chaput Accepts Recommendations
from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Education
St. Stanislaus and St. Rose of Lima Parish Schools to partner in providing Catholic Education in our parts of the North Penn area
In a January 6, 2012 letter addressed to parents of PREP students in the Archdiocese, Archbishop Chaput expressed: These are challenging days for all of us with the news of the plan to restructure our schools. This plan requires many of our schools throughout the diocese to partner, regionalize or close in order to fortify and revew Catholic education in our Archdiocese. Please be sure of my understanding and support in what may come as difficult news. I’m very grateful for your commitment to Catholic education, expecially as we plan for the future.
As you probably know, important trends are impacting Catholic education in the Archdiocese – declining baptisms, an increase of charter schools, and the rising cost of education. These factors have led to declining enrollment, resulting in higher tuition costs for fewer families and parishes bearing the financial burden of heavy operating deficits. Decreased enrollment has also forced a reduction of full-time personnel in some parish elementary schools to staff programs such as art, music, library, world languages, honors math, physical education, technology and resource rooms.
The Blue Ribbon Commission has provided a blueprint, not only to stabilize Catholic education in our Archdiocese, but to reinvigorate it. …
Click HERE to obtain an on-line copy of the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Education Commission
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