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First Catholic School
Lay couple Mary and Michael Burke established the first Catholic school in Brisbane -
First permenent Church
The settlement had its first permanent Church St Stephens -
First Catholic secondary school
Mother Vincent Wishey and the sisters of Mercy established our first Catholic secondary school All Hallows -
Schools esblished by lay teacher
The st James school for boys was staffed entirely by lay teachers -
35 Catholic schools where established
By the end of the decade there where 35 Catholic schools where established -
State funding was removed
Laws were passed to provide free compulsory and secular education and to remove state funding for all Religious schools -
James Duwick
arch bishop James Duwick invested in large land and by 1930 he had established 18 new school -
The Great Depresion!!!
During the great depression some schools wade there fees to help struggling family's and surprisingly no schools were shut down -
Catholic education challenges
catholic education was affected by lack of teachers growing class sizes and economic challenges -
Goverment funding
The federal Government provided grants to catholic education this way the first time in 100 years the catholic schools received government funding -
Queensland Catholic Education commission
12 schools emerged along side the Queensland catholic education commission -
The beginning of Catholic education today
archbishop Patrick Mary O'Donnell arrived in Brisbane and saw the formation of an arch diocesan education commotion which recommended the formation of catholic education office this was the beginning of catholic education as we know it today -
Catholic education today
there are 43 Thousand student enrolled and 113 across the archdioceses
