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Help Give Our Scholars a Jumpstart Next Year

June 1, 2022

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Our students may be a buzz with end-of-year summer excitement, but at CSFB we are focused on the academic needs of our current and future scholars. Each year our program supports hundreds of students in a wide variety of schools, making school choice possible for families that otherwise couldn’t afford…

Homeschooling: Part of School Choice

August 5, 2021

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Over our 22 years serving parents who want to send their children to non-public schools, a few have chosen to homeschool. And since this segment represents less than 2 percent of our students in any given year, I have not focused on it much in conversations or in writing. COVID…

Hopes and Dreams

July 1, 2021

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We recently reached out to some of our CSFB alumni scholars who are in high school to learn about their future plans, hopes, and dreams. Here are just a few of the responses we received. “My dream is to work in the field of Neuroscience. I want to be in…

Is Religion a Factor in Choosing a School?

April 28, 2021

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Is religion a factor in choosing a school? For some, the answer is yes, and for others, no. I recently had a conversation about the similarities of non-public schools. Full disclosure – the person I was speaking with was looking for a fight! He asked me to tell him what…

No one goes it alone

March 17, 2021

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“What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.”― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Watchwords Yesterday I watched a young child on the playground next to our dog park…