https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_schools_in_the_United_States
Catholic schools in the United States constitute the largest number of non-public schools in the county. They are accredited by independent and/or state agencies, and teachers are generally certified. Catholic schools are supported primarily through tuition payments and fundraising, and typically enroll students regardless of religious background.
Public funding debate
Heavily Protestant in the 19th century, most states passed a state constitutional amendment, referred to as the Blaine Amendment, forbidding tax money be used to fund parochial schools, a possible outcome of heavy immigration from Catholic Ireland after the 1840s. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court partially vitiated these amendments, in theory, when they ruled that vouchers were constitutional if tax dollars followed a child to a school, even if it were religious. However, no state had, by 2009, changed its laws to allow this. [10]
Since 2000, 1,942 Catholic schools around the country have shut their doors, and enrollment has dropped by 621,583 students, to just over 2 million in 2012, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Many Catholic schools were being squeezed out of the education market by publicly funded charter schools.
In Colorado.... the push is to voucher systems where funding follows the kids to school of choice.....- typically Charter schools. I did a lot with Hope on Line https://www.hopeonline.org/
Trump will break the Federal Education Monopoly and fund the States so that the States can serve their electorate... Parents will choose where rgeir kids will go to school. NOT Washington. |
