This week-long event is a national, annual celebration of the important role that Catholic elementary and secondary schools across the country play in providing a values-added education for America's young people.

This year’s theme is Catholic Schools: Faith. Excellence. Service.  The theme encompasses several concepts that are at the heart of a Catholic education. First, schools are communities—small families in their own right, but also members of the larger community of home, church, city and nation. Faith, excellence and service are three measures by which any Catholic school can and should be judged.