Remick Leadership Program in the News: Saving Catholic Schools Requires Strong Leaders

Cara Joyce, a current participant in ACE's Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program (RLP) , and Sister Barbara Kane, a RLP graduate, are among the educational leaders featured in a commentary in the New York Post titled "To Save NYC's Catholic Schools."

The commentary, written by influential author Naomi Schaefer Riley, argues that smart budget decision-making and other leadership sklls--attributes developed in the Remick Leadership Program--are required to keep inner-city Catholic schools open.

"For the poorest and most disadvantaged New Yorkers, Catholic schools provide the only reasonably priced alternative to the failing public school system," says Riley in the piece that was posted Jan. 31.

The newspaper opened up Catholic Schools Week with another commentary, "Catholic Competition," written by distinguished journalist Bill McGurn, questioning the weak support for Catholic schools among political leaders. He asked in the Jan. 28 piece, "What does it say about a city where failing public schools are hard to shut down while successful Catholic schools struggle to stay open?"