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Cristo Rey Network Bucks Trend of Declining Catholic School Enrollment

Cristo Rey Network Bucks Trend of Declining Catholic School Enrollment

Posted February 02, 2018 in Articles

Catholic school enrollment in the United States has been declining for decades, but one model has continued to grow while helping the most underserved children. Achieving the ‘Impossible’ “Since the mid-1960s Catholic high schools in the United States have been separating along different paths based upon their prospects for survival,” William Donovan and Jeffrey Thielman write in “Cristo Rey Schools: A Model of 21st-Century Catholic Education,” released in November 2017. “The pressures of rising labor costs, shifting demographics and a failing business model have created a distinct alignment consisting of schools serving top and bottom tiers and those catering to a shrinking... read more

Cristo Rey Network puts low-income students to work--and on to college

Cristo Rey Network puts low-income students to work--and on to college

Posted February 02, 2018 in Articles

As urban Catholic schools nationwide are closing their doors, it may come as a surprise that the Catholic Cristo Rey Network says it is on-pace to expand to a total of 50 schools within the... read more

Our New Home in under 60 seconds!

Our New Home in under 60 seconds!

Posted January 23, 2018 in Articles

It's hard to believe how much can be accomplished in less than 2 years, but we are experiencing that right here at the corner of Norwood and St. Clair. Since breaking ground in March of... read more

WEWS Live! SMDP gives students real world experience, families hope

WEWS Live! SMDP gives students real world experience, families hope

Posted January 15, 2018 in Articles

Newschannel 5 reporter Tara Molina paid us a visit on Martin Luther King day and reported live from Saint Martin. CLEVELAND - First opening its doors in 2004, Saint Martin De Porres High School provides an... read more

Cavs Head of the Class: Brittany Kirby

Cavs Head of the Class: Brittany Kirby

Posted January 10, 2018 in Articles

On Wednesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers honored one of Saint Martin's incredible teachers, Brittany Kirby, as the January winner of their Head of the Class educator. The Cavs contingent, which included Moondog, Q emcee Ahmaad Crump,... read more

How Much We Don't Know

How Much We Don't Know

Posted January 08, 2018 in Articles

BY ERIN CONWAY | January 8, 2018Sunday’s Readings As a first year teacher, the phrase I used most frequently was “I don’t know.” I was alarmed by how many questions students asked that I did not... read more

Viva Cristo Rey!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Posted January 04, 2018 in Articles

In the 1920s, when the United States had a quasi-Stalinist regime on its southern border, “Viva Cristo Rey!” was the defiant battle cry of the Cristeros who fought the radically secular Mexican government’s persecution of... read more

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