Every spring, Bishop Chatard High School hosts its New Play Festival, an event where students can submit plays they have written, around ten minutes long, to be featured along with five or six others chosen for the event. This past spring, Tommy Hartley, a senior at the time, enthusiastically submitted “Four Puzzles”, a play he […]

The following includes John Elcesser’s remarks at the NCEA Convention in April while accepting the Leonard F. DeFiore Parental Choice Advocate Award. If you know anything about school choice, you know its success is not contingent upon just one person or even a handful of people. It’s driven by a movement. I was blessed to […]