User:Snodgrass.mark/De La Salle Elementary, Memphis, Tennessee

De La Salle Elementary is a Catholic Jubilee School link titlein the Tradition. It was founded in Memphis, TN in 2000. The Jubilee Schools began with six previously closed Catholic elementary schools located in low income areas of Memphis. Each was to be reopened using donations received for that purpose. The first school to reopen was Saint Augustine in August 1999 under the direction of Sally Hermsdorfer. De La Salle opened in August 2000 under the direction of Brother Mark Snodgrass, FSC, a Brother of the Christian Schools. The religious order was founded in France in the 1600's by Saint John Baptist de La Salle. It is known as the De La Salle Brothers in most countries, but as the in the United States although this is a misnomer since that the Christian Brothers is an order founded by Edmund Rice in Ireland.