Education Collaborative of WNY

WOW this is exciting!

The Brotherhood Awaits you at our Spring Open House! In just over a week on Sunday, April 27, we are excited to welcome all prospective students and their families to our Spring Open House for private, self-guided tours of our campus. Reservations are available between 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. We can't wait to see you there and show you what it means to be apart of the SJCI community. Visit www.sjci.com/admissions to reserve your spot.

Students and families interested in the excellence only found in a Jesuit education at Canisius – ranked as the Buffalo’s area’s “Best Catholic School” by Business First – can learn more by reserving a spot at our Spring Open House on Sunday, April 27 via canisiushigh.org/openhouse

St. Francis High School

Time is running out for tomorrow's prep test

🚨 Attention all 7th grade boys and their families! 🚨

If your goal is to become a member of the St. Joe's brotherhood, then now is your chance to find out how you’d perform on the Scholarship & Entrance Exam!

We encourage you to take a practice St. Joe's Entrance Exam under normal testing conditions for FREE! Any young man currently in 7th grade is eligible.

This first practice exam is this Saturday, March 8 at 8:30am. A second exam will be available Saturday, May 10 at 8:30am. This is a pre-registration event only, register today at https://www.sjci.com/apps/pages/practiceexam

A little Buffalo history for this Thursday

Ida Dora Fairbush was born in 1869, when Buffalo's public schools remained segregated. With sustained advocacy by the African American community, the district was formally desegregated in 1872. It would be another twenty-five years before the district hired Fairbush as its first African American teacher in 1897.

She was initially hired in 1895 as a substitute in what newspapers termed an "experiment." Ida taught at School 6 for the next forty years and gained distinction for excellence in teaching immigrant children.

Damar Hamlin’s Buffalo Heroes Scholarship program launches Starting this year, 10 scholarships of up to $1,000 will be rewarded annually. That money can be used on tuition housing or books.

EdCo celebrates Black History Month

Chinese or Lunar New Year is also called Spring Festival as people welcome a time of planting and new beginnings. The 16 day long holiday is also celebrated in Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam and is a day for praying to the gods and to their ancestors. It is a time for families to be together, setting off a massive migration from the cities back to rural villages where elders live. Like Christmas and New Years here, the holiday is celebrated with fireworks, special food, gifts, lights in the form of lanterns, and many red decorations.

Pre-applications for new scholarships is officially open! Applications will be accepted January 15th - March 31st. For more information or to apply, please visit our website at www.bisonfund.org

Today EdCo will be closed in honor of Martin Luther King Day.