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Cristo Rey News
News crews coast to coast have captured the spirit of several Cristo Rey schools' graduation ceremonies for the class of 2012.
Jay Mathews, a reporter from the The Washington Post, includes five Cristo Rey schools on his list of America's most challenging high schools. Congratulations to Cristo Rey Boston High School; Cristo Rey Jesuit High School (Chicago); Notre Dame High School; Immaculate Conception Academy; and St. Martin de Porres High School (Waukegan).
100% of the seniors at Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School are heading to college.
John Garvey, President of The Catholic University of America, highlights the Cristo Rey Network in his recent Washington Post op-ed about the separation of church and state.
There are few visible similarities between Kristian Hampton and flowers, yet they share the ability to blossom and spread beauty. At age 18, Hampton, a senior at Christ the King (CTK) Jesuit College Prep, has written "a few" books he personally "doesn't think are all that good" and filled sketchbooks with images influenced by his love for the Japanese animation style of anime. He writes "any kind of realistic fiction, short stories - it's one of those things that I like to do in my spare time."
It's not uncommon for parents and educators to encourage students to think of their school responsibilities as their job. Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston takes that analogy a bit more literally.
The academic, social, and economic challenges facing low-income high school graduates in their transition to and through college remain formidable and well documented. Though the value of a college degree has never been greater, rates of college success for low-income students remain virtually unchanged over the last several decades – in 2008, the college attainment rates of low-income Americans stood at 10 percent.
NBC Bay Area highlights the amazing efforts of the students, faculty, staff, and Dominican Sisters to convert Immaculate Conception Academy into a member school of the Cristo Rey Network.
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The Cristo Rey Network is pleased to announce a partnership with The Alain Locke Initiative to train Cristo Rey Network principals to leverage the key capabilities critical to accelerating student achievement.
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Regis University, a Cristo Rey Network Supporting University Partner, profiles its extraordinary partnership with Arrupe Jesuit High School, a Cristo Rey member school located in Denver.
To help you better understand the impact of Cristo Rey Jesuit H.S., I'd like to share the story of senior and Robbinsdale resident Kiara Clark. Recently, I sat down with Kiara to get a better understanding of how Cristo Rey Jesuit H. S. has changed her life. First, rewind four years ago. Kiara was attending a public school in Robbinsdale and, as she puts it, "getting into a lot of trouble."
At Cristo Rey Boston, a Catholic high school in Dorchester that serves economically disadvantaged students, there was a Signing Day of a different sort last night as five academic all-stars announced the colleges they'll be attending next fall to great fanfare. They were sought after just as elite athletes are, each receiving offers from an average of eight colleges, including MIT, Jesuit schools and top state universities.
Immaculate Conception Academy students will have their model bridge displayed at the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th Anniversary Celebration after taking first place and Best Overall in city-wide competition.
Today the Cristo Rey Network announced that the Walton Family Foundation is investing $1.6 million in Cristo Rey with the goal of doubling the number of member schools across the country. In addition to this investment, the Foundation will be providing access to start up grants to new Cristo Rey schools.
WAUKEGAN — St. Martin de Porres High School was recently recognized for its efforts toward its low-income students when it was named as a School That Can, according to Principal Michael Odiotti.
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Every senior in the first graduating class of Detroit Cristo Rey High School has been accepted to at least one college or university, according to Susan Rowe, principal of the school.
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Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore is not asking what the City of Baltimore can do for it. Rather, in a unique report, the Catholic high school is detailing what the school has done to help strengthen the city.
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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - Senior Hugo Cazares is leading a special class Tuesday and helping his fellow students make beautiful music. But instead of using real instruments, they are tapping into their musical skills using only an iPad.
Mitzi Terese Infante was surprised to learn she was the receipt of a $99,400 scholarship to the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday morning at her high school, Christo Rey Kansas City.
Janet Shock is director of the corporate internship program at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. Cristo Rey Jesuit High School is a private college prep program with a kick — a corporate internship program. Our students are from disadvantaged ...
A national network of Catholic high schools that caters to low-income students - and has a track record of getting many of them to college - is eyeing Milwaukee as an expansion site, with help from Marquette University and the Bradley Foundation.
Today the Cristo Rey Network announced that the Walton Family Foundation is investing $1.6 million in Cristo Rey with the goal of doubling the number of member schools across the country. In addition to this investment, the Foundation will be providing access to start up grants to new Cristo Rey schools.
With demanding academics and an innovative work-study program, Cristo Rey Catholic schools have thrived, sending thousands of disadvantaged students to college and creating a new and sustainable model of Catholic education.
Something magical is happening at De La Salle North Catholic High, a private school in North Portland that serves mostly lower-income and minority students. It involves 15 teenagers taking Advanced Placement calculus -- kids who might otherwise be asked to master only the state minimums in math.
A big disconnect in high school is, 'What are we learning this for?'" says Michael Odiotti, Principal of St. Martin de Porres High School. "Here, they're learning chemistry and working at Abbott. They see chemists working. Combining the world of work and the world of school has a lot of power."
In Houston and across the country, the cry for education reform has been buttressed by evidence of an academic achievement gap for low-income and minority children - data showing lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, lower levels of college readiness and, tragically, lower expectations and leveled aspirations.
Faced with the prospect of Catholic schools closing, a Jesuit priest in Chicago has come up with an inspired solution. The students fund their education through working one day a week via the Cristo Rey Work Study Programme. Now there are 24 schools using the project.
Wouldn't it be great if there were an affordable school in your neighborhood that would enroll your son or daughter, even if he or she were three grades behind? What if that school were college preparatory and nearly all its graduates were accepted to two- and four-year colleges? Suppose it also exposed your high schooler to the world of the white-collar workplace by allowing him or her to work to earn a portion of his or her tuition.
Samford University's most recent issue of "Seasons" magazine profiles the institution's partnership with Holy Family Cristo Rey High School located in Birmingham, AL.
Denzel Kane, a senior at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School - Twin Cities, has worked for Twin Cities Live news program for four years.
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