Do We Have to Choose between Charters and Catholic Schools?
Samuel Freedman’s On Religion piece at the NYT–an interesting take on Diane Ravitch’s new must-read– argues that the proliferation of free charter schools hurts urban tuition-charging Catholic schools. Not all alternatives to failing public schools are equal, though, and Catholic schools are still the only ones to offer the things that public schools– by definition– can’t. James Coleman is still right after all these years about the benefits of Catholic school education, no matter what the faith of the student.
As Freedman says:
What one might call the Catholic-school model is perhaps the most unappreciated influence on the nation’s continuing public-education debate.
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