Twice a year we publish a newsletter that summarizes all that's happening within CCSTA as well as hearing from our provincial partners.

In this newsletter, we highlight our upcoming AGM/Convention as well as review the past year's top stories.

Download the December 2017 CCSTA newsletter.

CCSTA Hosts Student Art Poster + Logo Contest

Are you a student who loves design? Are you an artist? A graphic designer?

Then we want to see your creations.

To help promote the CCSTA Toonies for Tuition initiative, we’re reaching out to young artists from across the country to get creative and design a Toonies for Tuition logo and poster that speaks to the cause.

Our Toonies for Tuition program is a fundraising initiative to raise funds for the CCSTA Charitable Foundation. This foundation provides funding to students from across Canada who have to pay tuition to attend a Catholic school. These bursaries help to cover the financial restraints of attending elementary or high school where Catholic education is only partially funded by the government or not at all.

And this funding happens thanks to Toonies for Tuition.

Read more: Calling all Students: Develop our Toonies for Tuition Logo and Promotional Poster!

It was 20 years ago this past fall when the Newfoundland/Labrador government passed the Schools Act (1998) that saw the end to the denominational system of education, an article in the 1949 Terms of Union with Canada, in favor of a public system of education. To reflect on the 20th anniversary and what it means for Catholic education in NL as well as for the rest of the country, we chatted with Bonaventure Fagan.

Fagan, who was part of the negotiation team on behalf of Catholic schools in the 1990s, also wrote a book about the entire experience. He’s well versed in the province’s history pertaining to that change in the education system.

So, we reached out to him to reflect on the current school state and what other provinces are doing to ensure Catholic education remains a key element of Canadian society.

Read more: Twenty Years Later: A Reflection on the NL Schools Act