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Lab School kids to sing at D.C. concert

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Catholic schools freeze tuition due to economy

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Chicago Archdiocese freezes teacher pay

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Families struggle with Catholic school tuition

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Former all-girls school makes history with boys basketball championship

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Arts academy goes beyond acting, directing

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

French school opens doors to English speakers

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Catholic school in Pilsen benefits from Notre Dame partnership

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

A family affair at Maria High School

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Francis W. Parker School to open revamped auditorium

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

An unexpected moment in the limelight for Sacred Heart students

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

At Waldorf school, kids experiment with solar panels

Solar panels on the roof of the Chicago Waldorf School power light bulbs, as well as lessons about physics, electricity and alternative energy.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Tech purchase allows students to see, not just hear, when they learn

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

DePaul program aims to boost math, science at Catholic schools

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

Hope, technology program bring laptops to St. Sabina

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.

1 year ago | Sue Ter Maat

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