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Council for American Private Education  

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  • The Council for American Private Education (CAPE) is a not-for-profit umbrella organization of national associations that serve religious and independent elementary and secondary schools. According to its articles of incorporation, CAPE was established in 1971 to “provide a framework for communication and cooperation” among its member organizations and to foster collaboration “between private schools and their public school counterparts” and “between private schools and various branches and agencies of the federal, state, and local governments.” Additional purposes enumerated in CAPE's founding document include “encouraging a vigorous diversity in education to match our country's heritage of pluralism,” improving opportunities for families “to have a realistic choice among schools,” fostering a “broad public commitment to excellence in education,” and involving “private schools in the nation's educational tasks.” At its inception, CAPE had eight member organizations: the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, the Friends Council on Education, the National Association of Episcopal Schools, the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Catholic Educational Association, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, the National Union of Christian Schools (now known as Christian Schools International), and the United States Catholic Conference (now known as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Council for American Private Education (CAPE)]

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