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Metro Catholic School, Cleveland's largest inner-city Catholic elementary school, has announced it is conducting a $2.5 million capital campaign to serve children from the city's most impoverished neighborhoods. Entitled the Children in the City Campaign, it is the largest effort of its kind in the school's 20-year history. The appeal reached the half-way point earlier this month, less than a year after the effort began, despite a strained economy. The school is now focusing its efforts on...

By Dave Gibson The Catholic school system of the Diocese of Memphis was honored June 26 by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management during a banquet in Philadelphia. Steps the diocese took this decade to make Catholic schools accessible to inner-city children have attracted widespread interest. Memphis Bishop J. Terry Steib and Mary McDonald, diocesan schools' superintendent, accepted the annual Best Practices Award, given by the Leadership Roundtable during its annual...