The Church must not miss this chance to change education, especially for the poor
By Charlie Camosy

Things couldn’t be worse for Catholic education in the United States, but they can get better. Since 1971 the number of schools have been cut nearly in half: from 9,366 then to 4,812 that survive today, and many of those are endangered.

And as a new report from Partnership Schools laments, the closures have been concentrated in economically vulnerable communities of color. 202 Catholic schools closed at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, and underserved groups were over twice as likely to lose their school. The Archdiocese of New York alone closed twenty of these schools, due mostly to complications arising from the pandemic.