My Daily Domestic Clips 09/21/2010 (a.m.)

• Saving Parochial Schools May First Require Nips and Tucks – NYTimes.com – Annotated This sounds like a good plan to me, at least worth giving a try! tags: catholic education
  • “He is saying what everyone has been thinking for years, but was too afraid
    to speak out loud,” said Brother Brian Carty, founder of the De La
    Salle Academy in Manhattan, an independent middle school run by the
    Christian Brothers. “Very few parochial schools draw kids from their parishes
    only. Most of these kids take a subway to school, in fact. If we want Catholic
    education for kids, we have to face these realities.”
    The recession has aggravated chronic budget problems in the archdiocese,
    which paid an additional $30 million in fiscal 2009 to help parishes and schools
    meet expenses, officials said.
    The new initiative would not be the first big retrenchment by the
    archdiocese, which closed or merged 21 of its roughly 400 parishes in a 2007
    consolidation. And it relies on some strategies that church leaders have used to
    try saving Catholic schools elsewhere, including in the neighboring Diocese of
    Brooklyn, which last year began creating community boards of lay people and
    priests to administer and raise money for clusters of struggling schools.
• Saving Parochial Schools May First Require Nips and Tucks – NYTimes.com – Annotated
  • Now, Archbishop Timothy
    M. Dolan is signaling that he will soon mount a more aggressive effort to
    prune the number of schools and ensure the future of those that remain.
    In speeches and articles
    over the last few months, the archbishop has sketched the broad outlines of
    a plan that includes consolidating or closing many of the 216 elementary schools
    in the system, changing the way parochial schools are financed and — for the
    first time in the archdiocese’s 160-year history — redefining the basic
    relationship between Catholics and their schools
  • Each elementary school has until now been financed mainly by members of its
    local parish. But in the proposed reorganization, the cost of educating roughly
    56,000 grade school students would be spread among all the parishes, and all the
    plate-passing churchgoers among 2.5 million Catholics in the archdiocese.
    All dioceses have struggled with the steady loss of enrollment in parochial
    schools, which are considered important as feeders for Catholic high schools and
    colleges, and as developers of lifelong faith. Yet despite the loss of more than
    1,500 inner-city schools in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other major
    cities in the last decade, no church leader has suggested changes as sweeping as
    Archbishop Dolan’s.
• Mother with terminal cancer clings to life to see her son’s first day at school… and dies the next day | Mail Online – Annotated tags: healthcare obamacare
  • Mrs Hogg was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer – an aggressive form
    of the disease which affects just four per cent of sufferers – and underwent six
    months of chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
    Her husband, an IT project manager, considered taking legal action against
    the NHS, for what he believes was a ‘long summer of misdiagnosis’ after a lump,
    initially discovered by his wife in around 2007, was dismissed as harmless
    breast tissue, then mastitis, and was later treated as a cyst.

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