US Catholic school association seeks rebound from grim year
The organisation overseeing Catholic schools in the United States welcomed a new chief executive this week as it seeks to rebound from its biggest one-year enrollment drop since the 1970s. Amid the pandemic, more than 200 schools closed permanently, and enrollment at the 5,981 remaining schools fell by 6.4 per cent – or more than […]
Catholic education: Facing enrolment declines, some US dioceses are betting on online schools
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on the move of some US Catholic schools to permanent online learning…
Catholic schools in US hit by unprecedented enrollment drop
New York City, USAP Enrollment in Roman Catholic schools in the United States dropped 6.4 per cent from the previous academic year amid the pandemic and economic stresses – the largest single-year decline in at least five decades, Catholic education officials reported Monday. Among the factors were the closure or consolidation of more than 200 […]