Inner-city Catholic schools are rapidly vanishing, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s new report, Who Will Save America’s Urban Catholic Schools? Since 1990, 1,300 Catholic schools have closed, displacing 300,000 students and costing taxpayers $20 billion to absorb these students into public schools. These closures have had little to do with performance and much to do with Catholics leaving the inner cities for suburbia.
The report calls on parishioners, philanthropists, and others who recognize the quality educational option Catholic schools can provide, even to non-Catholics, to support these inner-city schools directly and through development and marketing plans that will ensure Catholic schools remain a vibrant and valuable player in American education.
Comments (2)
Catholic schools in this neck of the woods seem to be doing pretty well. I haven't heard of any schools closing, that's for sure.
April 25, 2008 4:59 PM | Comment Permalink
Where is this happening? Catholic schools in my neck of the woods seem to be doing just fine.
April 27, 2008 12:57 PM | Comment Permalink