<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e5e36a86-fe45-4529-b4b7-b14c5bfdd505/AE6F379E-DFC7-433B-ACE7-5A03E5D88FF2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48" href="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48" style="font-size: 11px;">insidecatholic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/insidecatholic.com/img/FE4A6666-62B2-4A34-9446-8F0D392120EE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48"><DIV><SPAN>Since the Katrina disaster, the schools of the Archdiocese of New Orleans have swelled to <EM>double</EM> the enrollment of the local public schools -- 40,000 to 20,000. Rev. Neal McDermott, O.P., </SPAN><SPAN>superintendent of the </SPAN><SPAN><A href="http://www.anocs.org/"><FONT color="#0000ff">Catholic schools,</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN> told me yesterday that the archdiocese is facing a financial crunch when the $10 million in Catholic Charities money, allocated in 2006 to help the schools following the hurricane, runs out. </SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48"><DIV><SPAN>Since all the public schools in New Orleans have been officially pronounced "failing," parents have been moving their children to charter schools and private schools, but above all to <EM>Catholic</EM> schools, where 60 percent of the 40,000 students are non-Catholic. </SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6532&Itemid=48">This past spring the Catholic high schools graduated 2,785 seniors, with an amazing 96 percent being admitted into college and another 2 percent into the military. That compares with a 40 percent graduation rate in the public schools.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AE6F379E-DFC7-433B-ACE7-5A03E5D88FF2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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