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 […]
LA Catholic Archdiocese to close six schools due to hardships heightened by pandemic
Los Angeles, USRNS Six Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are closing at the end of the 2020-21 school year due to financial hardships heightened by COVID-19. “These six schools had been trying to overcome financial challenges long before the pandemic,” said Paul Escala, superintendent of schools for the archdiocese in his […]
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 […]