For too long, low-income children in Illinois have been prisoners of their ZIP codes. Their educational opportunities are determined by arbitrary lines on a map that pen families inside a school district's boundaries.
Lawmakers who are wrestling over a new school funding formula this week should embrace a compromise that would rescue those children. They can advance a proposal creating scholarships for low- and middle-income kids to attend school outside their district boundaries.
Dr. Christian Dallavis, the Senior Director of Leadership Programs for the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education, has been selected to join the prestigious Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program.
Photographer Andrew Hamaty (ACE 22—Mission) provides a recap of the second half of ACE Summer with the following images. Visit his Midsummer Photo Essay for more moments from ACE Summer 2017.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago blessed 255 teachers and leaders as part of the Alliance for Catholic Education’s (ACE) Missioning Mass on July 27 as they prepared to leave the University of Notre Dame’s campus and serve students in Cathoilc schools around the country.
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings spoke to a standing-room only crowd of Catholic-school teachers and leaders July 25, encouraging them to use culturally relevant pedagogy to help their students understand how education is relevant to their future.
