Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Information
5 Educ. L. & Pol'y Rev. 35 (2019) .
Abstract
In January 2018, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Holley, announced his decision to close all of the diocese’s Jubilee Schools — a network of Catholic schools serving primarily disadvantaged urban children — at the end of the 2018-19 school year. The decision, which affects nearly 1,500 students, rocked the Catholic school world. For decades, the Jubilee network — often dubbed the “Miracle in Memphis” — had been a counterfactual bright spot set apart from the otherwise bleak reality of decline facing urban Catholic schools. While nearly 3,000 Catholic schools, most of them located in urban centers, have closed since 1990, Bishop Holley’s predecessor, Bishop Terry Steib, made the decision in 1999 to reopen nine previously closed Catholic schools in the city center in order to provide poor children in Memphis the option of a Catholic education. Steib subsequently added several additional schools to the Jubilee network, including the only Catholic high school in Memphis’s urban core. Almost all of the children attending the Jubilee schools are poor, and the overwhelming majority of them are African American and Hispanic.3
Recommended Citation
Nicole S. Garnett,
A Case for Educational Pluralism,
5 Educ. L. & Pol'y Rev. 35 (2019) ..
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1800
Comments
Abstract from introduction.