The nation's Catholic parochial schools have been closing during the past five years at an average rate of one per day, economic victims of inflation and a declining supply of nuns and priests available to teach for low salaries. Strangely enough, the schools' plight has converted many traditional opponents of state aid for church schools into devout advocates. The reasons have nothing to do with religious persuasion, but only with hard economic fact. The parochial schools once educated as many as 6,000,000 children, about 11% of the nation's school-age students, at comparatively little cost to the taxpayer. But the recent closing...
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