Education, private (institutions)

U.S. Catholic school report highlights steady enrollment, school choice

By Kate Quinos, Catholic News Agency Staff, March 21, 2024 Following three years of modest growth, enrollment in Catholic education has remained stable since 2023, according to new data made public Wednesday by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA).   The NCEA, which... read more

‘Every child deserves the opportunity to thrive’: New Orleans Saints owner funds new Catholic school

By Zoe Romanowsky/CNA Staff, Catholic News Agency, January 7, 2024 New Orlean’s Good Shepherd School, which serves low-income urban youth, received an extraordinary Christmas gift this year: a large financial gift from New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans owner Gayle... read more

The belles of St. Mary’s: College rescinds transgender policy

By Michelle La Rosa, the Pilot, December 21, 2023 . 2:10 PM   St. Mary’s College, a women’s college in South Bend, Indiana, has decided not to implement its plan to enroll male students who identify as female. The change was announced in a Dec. 21 email to the college community,... read more

Bishop Rhoades urges St. Mary’s College to ‘correct’ new policy allowing trans applicants

Rhoades claims the issue lies in the Catholic college embracing a definition of woman he says is “not Catholic.” By Jazlynn Beboutt, 21AliveNews.com, November 29, 2023 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WPTA)- Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese is speaking out against a policy... read more

UPDATE: Indiana Catholic women’s college now accepting men who identify as women

By Joe Bukuras, Cathoplic News Agency, Nolvember 27, 2023 Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana — historically a school for undergraduate women — will now be accepting men who identify as women. The school’s president confirmed the change to students and faculty in an... read more

Students protest Catholic university’s decision to cut theology and religious studies major, numerous other programs

By Candace Hathaway, Blaze Media, March 09, 2023 Students attending Marymount University, a Catholic liberal arts institution in Arlington, Virginia, are protesting and voicing their concerns regarding school officials' recent decision to cut nine majors and one graduate program, including... read more

Gender Ideology Comes to Notre Dame

By William H. Dempsey, Catholic Thing, October 24, 2022 When Pope Francis spoke out about the “woke” gender theory fueling today’s transgender frenzy as “a great falsehood” and “ideological colonization,” he doubtless didn’t anticipate that Notre Dame, America’s leading... read more

Arizona Teachers’ Union Push to Overturn School-Choice Expansion Appears to Flop

By Caroline Downey, National Review, September 27, 2022 The teachers’ union-backed campaign to overturn school-choice expansion in Arizona appears to have flopped, according to think tank projections relying on preliminary vote tallies. Under the expansion of Arizona’s... read more

After Courts Force Jewish University to Host LGBTQ Campus Group, University Shuts Down All Clubs

By Virginia Allen, Daily Signal, September 19, 2022 Yeshiva University has shut down all its campus clubs following a Supreme Court decision that would have forced the university to recognize an LGBTQ group on campus. The university administration sent an email to students over the weekend,... read more

Yeshiva University doesn’t have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter, September 9, 2022 A library of Yeshiva University Wilf campus in New York.Xinhua News Agency/Alamy/FileCNN —  Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed Friday night to temporarily block a lower court order that required... read more

Editorial: Catholic schools need policies on human sexuality

Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board, August 30, 2022The Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, faced significant backlash last week when it announced a policy on human sexuality, saying among other things, that students must comport themselves according to their biological sex. A similar outcry was raised... read more