Trending upward: Enrollment in local Catholic schools continues to climb August 29, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Schools Total enrollment is expected to reach nearly 25,000 in archdiocesan and independent Catholic schools – an increase of approximately 530 students from the previous academic year.
Schools convocation reminds Catholic educators of common mission August 25, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Archbishop William E. Lori and Superintendent of Catholic Schools Dr. Donna Hargens welcomed nearly 1,200 Catholic school educators, administrators and staff from around the Archdiocese of Baltimore to the Church of Nativity in Timonium Aug. 25 for a day of prayer, reflection and fellowship as a new school year dawns.
NCEA, other faith-based groups fight efforts to broaden scope of Title IX August 25, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News A number of Catholic and other faith-based associations and groups, including dioceses, have joined in supporting an amicus brief filed in a court case on how the Biden administration’s proposal to broaden the interpretation of Title IX provisions could affect nonprofit organizations, including private schools.
Calvert Hall’s Kevin Ford, a teacher of the year for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, loves his job August 25, 2022By Todd Karpovich Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Kevin Ford has a simple philosophy for teaching literature at Calvert Hall: Have fun.
Fullerton alum named teacher of the year while serving her alma mater August 25, 2022By Adam Zielonka Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Not only did Kristin Urbanski wind back up at St. Joseph years later, but in May she won the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Elementary School Teacher of the Year – becoming the first St. Joseph teacher to win the award, according to principal Chrissie Ashby.
Heavy topics in a culture of inclusion: St. Mary’s O’Day instructs heads and hearts August 25, 2022By Erik Zygmont Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Anna O’Day encourages her students at St. Mary’s in Annapolis to bring their deepest, most difficult questions, and she challenges them to tackle such inquiries with sincerity and rigor.
Longing for a normal school year August 24, 2022By Katie Prejean McGrady Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Schools And so, here we are in 2022, a fourth “first day” for our 5-year-old, launching into kindergarten with hopes, dreams and expectations of “normalcy” resting on her little outer space backpack laden shoulders.
Principal calls vandalism at Catholic school in Washington ‘a hate crime’ August 15, 2022By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling “a hate crime.”
Catholic agencies feel pinch of fewer donations for school-supply drives August 15, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, Schools, World News The National Retail Federation reported in June that school-supply prices were expected to increase by 40 percent and one loan company said 37 percent of parents with school-age children said they are unable to afford back-to-school shopping.
Archdiocese of Baltimore welcomes new school leaders August 10, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Several elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are under new leadership.
Baltimore native feels ‘at home’ with Philadelphia’s Sisters of St. Francis July 28, 2022By Mike Lang Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Vocations On Aug. 6, Ann Dutrow will profess final vows with the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in Aston, Pa., with her biological and Franciscan families on hand.
Former Hagerstown principal dies at 86 July 18, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Schools A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Barbara Mary Slaney was offered June 29 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Barbara Mary died June 22. She was 86.
