The Inner-City Scholarship Fund raised over $1.6 million to help provide tuition assistance for students attending inner-city Catholic schools at their 43rd annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Awards Dinner! The fund helps over 11,000 students with tuition assistance each year: 91 percent are minority students and 39 percent are non-Catholics. > Click here to read more [...]
The Catholic schools on Staten Island hosted their Annual Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday, Dec. 12. All participants were in grades 5 through 8, and qualified for the competition by out-spelling their classmates. The winner, Charlotte Tama of St. Joseph Hill Academy, felt like she made her school proud when she won the competition by [...]
Jonathan Boo, STEM Director of Cathedral High School, received the 2019 Emergent Design Science Professional Award in September at the 6th Biennial Design Science Symposium held at Rhode Island School of Design. This honor is awarded biannually to a promising recent design graduate, whose design skills and design philosophy exemplify application of comprehensive anticipatory design [...]
When a fire ravaged a St. John's School of Kingsbridge student's home, principal Melissa Moore stepped in. With the help of Inner-City Scholarship Fund, the majority of this student's tuition was covered, and young Sachila is able to stay at the school he calls home. This is a heartwarming story of how Catholic schools step [...]
Students at St. Adalbert School in Staten Island hosted their Annual pre-Veterans Day breakfast and assembly for over 100 veterans and their families last Wednesday. The students gifted handmade cards and hearts to the veterans, performed patriotic songs, and took part in the White Table Ceremony -- a remembrance of Veterans who are missing in [...]
The Westchester County Center was filled with 3,500 Catholic school principals, teachers, and administrators yesterday for their annual Spirituality Day. The day consisted of Mass said by Timothy Cardinal Dolan and a keynote speech by former principal, and current Bishop-elect, Monsignor Edmund J. Whalen. Fios1 spoke to attendees about what makes the Catholic school system [...]
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, has named Mr. Michael J. Deegan as Superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of New York. Mr. Deegan, who has been serving as interim superintendent, will assume the role immediately. A Bronx native, Mr. Deegan is veteran educator, who has spent his entire career serving the Archdiocese [...]
