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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin, Texas, plans to open a high school in August that would be the third such Catholic school in the nation to use a work-study program to subsidize its costs.
The school will be called Juan Diego Catholic High School after a 16th-century Mexican who is believed by many Catholics to have received a vision of Mary at Guadalupe. The Vatican recently announced plans to canonize Juan Diego as a saint.
The school will be modeled after Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, which started the work-study model in 1996. Under that setup, each student works one day a week in an entry-level job shared with three other students, said Todd Austin, the school's president. Payment for the work covers most...
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