Diocese of Brooklyn Selects Private Schooling Direct for Online Marketing of Catholic Schools

Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) January 16, 2008 -- Private Schooling Direct, an Internet based private school admissions marketing company, today announced the formation of a partnership with the Diocese of Brooklyn. Msgr. Michael J. Hardiman, former Vicar for Education and currently the Interim Executive Director of the Futures in Education Endowment Fund for Brooklyn and Queens said that "this is another step in our major marketing endeavors for Catholic schools in Queens and Brooklyn." Through this relationship, Private Schooling Direct aims to help increase new student enrollment in the 137 Catholic elementary and secondary schools located in the Diocese.

The turnkey solution will include customized profiles for each school being exposed to the nearly 30,000 parents and guardians that use Private Schooling Direct each month to search for private and parochial schools. As part of the agreement, Private Schooling Direct will manage top search engine results for geographically targeted search terms drawing traffic to the more than 75 neighborhoods which the schools serve in Queens and Kings Counties in New York City. The initial term of the relationship is to cover the entire 2008 calendar year. The funding for this initiative is through a grant from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, the Bishop of Brooklyn.

"We are excited by the opportunity to help increase awareness of the quality education offered by the schools in Brooklyn and Queens" commented James Reilly, President of Private Schooling Direct. "Through this partnership, the elementary and secondary schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn will gain exposure to the ever increasing number of parents using our service to locate a private school. We are focused on helping the schools in the Diocese maximize the benefit of this exposure and turn the traffic on our site into new student enrollments for their schools," Mr. Reilly continued.

About Private Schooling Direct, LLC

Private Schooling Direct operates www.privateschoolingdirect.com, a comprehensive directory of PK-12 private and parochial schools in the United States and other free resources for parents searching for a school. Private Schooling Direct is the nation's leading admissions marketing service for PreK-12 private and parochial schools needing to attract new students and modernize recruiting processes - all in an effort to increase enrollment numbers. For more information, please contact Jesse Josephson via telephone at 561-417-7768 or via email at jjosephson@privateschoolingdirect.com.

About the Diocese of Brooklyn

Formed in 1853, the Diocese of Brooklyn is the only totally urban Roman Catholic Diocese in the United States. The Diocese of Brooklyn has the largest Catholic population among the nearly 200 Dioceses in the country. The Diocese is home to more than 1.5 million Catholics in over 200 parishes and has nearly 55,000 students enrolled in its 137 Elementary and Secondary schools along with 22,000 students in the three colleges and universities located in the Diocese. For more information, please visit http://www.dioceseofbrooklyn.org

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