Few Catholic schools offer special education
February 10th, 2009From the Chicago Tribune:
Notre Dame High School for Boys in Niles, Illinois, will soon become the first parochial school in that state to offer classes for students with disabilities.
Across the nation, only six other Catholic high schools offer such programs.
“One of our weaknesses in the Catholic system has been that we haven’t been able to include students of every walk of life, and that includes special needs,” said Daniel Tully, Notre Dame’s principal. “We think that having students with special needs would be as big a benefit to [current students] as to the new students.”
The Notre Dame program is partially funded by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, a former special education teacher and founder of the Special Olympics, and her husband, Chicago Alderman Ed Burke.

