Private schools
Pascale is one of three fourth graders from the Hyde Park school selected to sing in the 2009 National Kodaly Children’s Choir, which will be performing Saturday evening.
8 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Families are struggling to meet parochial school tuition, which reaches several thousand dollars a year. In response, schools that typically increase tuition each year are holding the line.
8 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Officials hope the move, which affects most of the Archdiocese's 16,000 employees, will help them avoid layoffs in the future. Enrollment at Catholic schools has been falling.
8 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
The Chicago Archdiocese and the Big Shoulders Fund have created a $1 million emergency scholarship fund to help parents who have recently lost a job pay tuition. More than a thousand people have applied.
8 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Seton Academy officials are hoping the team's basketball success will help them recruit more male students, completing the school's transformation to a co-ed facility.
9 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
A new class at the Chicago Academy for the Arts teaches kids how to design and make costumes for theatrical productions. It's part of an effort by the school to show students there's more to theater than acting.
9 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Lycee Francais de Chicago previously focused on educating French-speaking students. But the school recently launched a program aimed at parents who want their English-speaking children to learn in a dual-language environment.
9 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Notre Dame provides financial assistance, and a teaching coach who works 20 hours a week at St. Ann Catholic School. Staffers at the school say the collaboration has brought a new enthusiasm to the campus.
9 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Since 1987, seven sisters from the Roland family have attended Maria High School. The family chose to send the children to single-sex Catholic schools where energy could be focused on studies.
9 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow will take the stage for the first performance in the private school's new space. A $5 million donation funded the renovations, which will allow the entire student body to meet under one roof.
10 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
A song written for a school assembly ended up as a professionally produced track sold over the internet, thanks to parents with music-industry connections.
10 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
Solar panels on the roof of the Chicago Waldorf School power light bulbs, as well as lessons about physics, electricity and alternative energy.
10 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
St. Francis de Sales co-ed high school is being wired to the Internet thanks to $145,000 from its technology improvement fund. Some $120,000 is from a donor who wants to remain anonymous.
10 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
A dozen math and science teachers will benefit from a program that brings free master's degree classes to a local Catholic school. The classes focus on weaknesses spotted in test scores at Archdiocese schools.
10 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
The school is the first beneficiary of a program at Seton Academy, which provides new laptops to its high school students, and donates older ones to elementary schools.
11 months ago | Sue Ter Maat
