Teachers at all levels are expected to impart Christian values in all their interactions with students, be it in the science lab, the gymnasium or English class. Enrollment has increased recently, in part due to the area's population growth and in part due to a strategic marketing plan. Private schools also have a friend in Minnesota's Republican Gov. Arne Carlson, who pushed a package of education tax breaks through the Democratic-controlled state Legislature in 1997. Administrators are not concerned that growth will diminish educational quality. Another challenge forever before Catholic school administrators is the inequity between private and public school teachers' salaries.
Administrators have yet to find a solution to the problem.
Featured schools Cathedral St. Joseph's St. Augustine's St. John's Prep Sts. Peter, Paul and Michael St. Mary's St. Francis Xavier.