Area Catholic Schools Plot New Course Together To Boost Enrollment
A kickoff mass for the new collaboration was held Monday at St Monica in Creve Coeur.
Roughly eight months after St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson laid out a plan for Catholic education in the region designed to boost enrollment and a stronger Catholic identity, five schools in St. Louis County are coming together in ways that school leaders hope leads to a similar result. St. Monica and Our Lady of The Pillar in Creve Coeur, St. Richard in unincorporated St. Louis County, Holy Spirit in Maryland Heights and Ste. Genevieve du Bois in Warson Woods celebrated a mass at St. Monica Monday to kickoff Central County Catholic Schools: Partners in Mission. The partnership is not a merger. It is a three-pronged approach that will see the schools work together on marketing, academics and professional development for teachers. "…
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Christi Benben
4:25 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I look at the grounds of a Catholic parish and see a community centered on Jesus. I look at the grounds of a public school and I see teachers, parents, and students who are comfortable with the reality that Jesus is not a part of their lives for at least 6 hours a day. There’s nothing the public school offers that would justify me forfeiting the opportunity for our children to receive JESUS in … more ›