Explore St. Gregory the Great Catholic Academy – Bellerose, Queens
Tommy Schultz, the CEO of the American Federation for Children, wrote in the New York Post about the success of Catholic schools during the pandemic.
In case you missed it, American education is in free-fall. The National Center for Education Statistics released the first national test scores for fourth- and eighth-graders since before the pandemic, and the news is somehow worse than we could have imagined, with catastrophic learning loss, the largest declines ever recorded and decades of progress wiped out.
But in America’s Catholic schools, the failure and free-fall simply did not happen. In fact, in both math and reading, Catholic scores stayed the same or improved in areas where public schools dramatically declined.