About ACE Consulting

We seek to enhance the viability and vitality of Catholic schools by  addressing areas critical to school success, and offering strategies to leverage public and private resources to promote institutional advancement. Stephen A. Perla, former superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Mass., leads the ACE Consulting Initiative. As a member of Notre Dame’s national Task Force on Catholic Education, he contributed to the report it published in December 2006, Making God Known, Loved, and Served: The Future of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in the United States. The Task Force called for increased services for and support to the financial welfare and management of Catholic schools. In response to this urgent need, the Alliance for Catholic Education built ACE Consulting in 2008.

ACE Consulting works to make God known, loved, and served by strengthening and transforming Catholic education through research-based consulting, professional education, and strategic professional services.

“ACE is committed to strengthening and sustaining under-resourced Catholic schools. ACE Consulting is one more effort to ensure that our Church’s educational ministry remains strong and vibrant.”

Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., Director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, Founder of ACE