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For 26 years, ClSE schools have been educating needy children in our city's poorest neighborhoods. As we enter our 27th year, we're proud that the children in the eight ClSE elementary schools will receive a quality education in an atmosphere that promotes learning, discipline and the development of a positive approach to life and their future. Historically, ClSE donations were primarily needed to supply tuition help for the students. ClSE families pay what they can afford to contribute in school tuition. Families are not turned away because they cannot afford an alternative to their public education option. The need for assistanceis growing. The neighborhoods around our inner-city schools continue to change and in many cases decline. The addition of students from failing public schools under the Ohio EdChoice Voucher Program often requires extra counseling and educational assistance. And, the desire to provide high school scholarship assistance to ClSE students so that they may continue their quality education experience, all require additional financial support.
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Why is my support for CISE important?

Support for ClSE improves our community one child at a time. Not only does it mean giving an individual child the tools and hope necessary to break the cycle of poverty, it also builds these children into bright, successful and caring young men and women. Support for their education means instead of becoming statistics and victims of poverty, they will become the economic and social cornerstones of our community. Their future is our future. Please help make it as bright as possible.

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What is CISE?
ClSE is the Catholic Inner-City Schools Education Fund.

What has been the result?

The CISE schools have been incredibly successful. The students react positively to the environment and challenges of the schools. The program has been a beacon of hope for more than 27,000 young people and their families. ClSE schools have given them the opportunity to live a productive and meaningful life.

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When it was created 27 years ago, ClSE raised money to give tuition help to students in Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods so they could attend neighborhood who

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How much money is raised?

The amount has risen from $32,000 in 1981 to about $2.8 million this past school year.

Success at our schools is amazing. They are a beacon of hope and pride in the ever-changing

Catholic elementary schools. Increasingly, these schools were serving children from the neighborhood were not part of the parish. While educating children who need assistance is an important mission of the Catholic Church, the funding of the schools became a challenge. Rather than close the schools, the CISE organization was created to continue this important educational service to these poor neighborhoods.

We see despair become joy, fear become strength and failure become success. Your dollars make it possible. Your dollars allow our teachers, our principals, our students and our schools to succeed. About 60% of our graduates now go on to Catholic high schools on scholarship. And 88% of these students go on to college. CISE alumni are working for NASA and attending West Point. They are serving in the military, and police and fire departments. They are teachers and accountants, salespeople and mothers and fathers.

What does the money do?

At first we only provided tuition help. But as the neighborhoods have changed and the school population has changed, we now provide a lot more. While it is suggested and hoped that all parents pay something, the amount they are able to pay usually does not approach the cost of educating their children. Costs have risen. We have made needed and important repairs to buildings. We have found support for computers and enrichment programs to support existing curriculum. We have recently given salary subsidies to ensure quality faculties. We have created a successful program of providing ClSE graduates with scholarships to Catholic High Schools. In the past year since the inclusion of Ohio EdChoice Voucher students from academically failing schools, we have been met with new challenges which are being addressed by funding additional teacher's assistants, tutors and social workers for our schools.

Is this strictly a Catholic program?

Definitely not. About 79% of the students are non-Catholic. Also, about 73% are minority and about 82% of ClSE families live at or below the poverty level. We teach Christian values. What is really important to those who can help us with donations is that these schools help children of all faiths and they also form a core of success and stability in the heart of neighborhoods that are important to the future of Cincinnati and people of all faiths.

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All of this costs a growing amount of money. All of this means the cost of educating a student in a ClSE school has risen to approximately $5,000.

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