Bishop Kearney becomes first Catholic school to pilot Matilda Cuomo’s mentoring program
Bishop Kearney High School has become the first ever Catholic School to pilot Matilda Cuomo’s New York State Mentoring Program.
Created by Cuomo at the request of her husband, then-Governor Mario Cuomo, in 1984, the New York State Mentoring Program was the nation’s first statewide unique school-based one-to-one mentoring program aimed at preventing school dropouts.
From its inception, up until its pause in 1994, the program helped prevent at least 10,000 students from walking away from school. That success inspired Cuomo’s son, the current Governor Andrew Cuomo, to reinstate the program in 2015, and name his mother as chair.