Should religious schools be an option? Should they receive public funding? Are they bad for community cohesion? What should we make of the charge that they indoctrinate? How should they be regulated? People disagree on the answers to these questions. Some maintain that religious schools should not be permitted. If parents want to raise their…

While faith schools have always been an integral part of the English state-maintained system of education, during Tony Blair's period as Prime Minister there was a distinct encouragement of the sector. This article assesses the long-term effects of such support. (Contains 1 table.)

This program, funded under Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, for eligible non-public school students in New York City consisted of corrective mathematics services and other supportive services. The supportive services were guidance, homework help and paraprofessional assistance. The program was aimed at first through twelfth graders,…

Three recent cases in Michigan, Alabama, and New Jersey demonstrate that, despite popular and legislative pressure, courts continue to hold firm against efforts to inject religion into public education. (Author/JM)

Negotiated Tuition is a program, appropriate to private schools, in which a school representative discusses in an interview with parents what the school provides, what the per pupil costs are, and what the parents feel they can afford to pay in tuition. It is assumed that parents enroll their children in nonpublic schools because they believe it…

Summarizes a variety of religious issues before United States courts, including two religion-in-the-schools cases in New Jersey and Georgia and two New York cases involving public assistance of private schools. Discusses a wrongful death lawsuit in Connecticut concerning a teenage suicide. (MLH)

Discusses the history, funding, and nature of private schools in Canada. Concludes that since private schools are "rooted in the history of our nation," and their supporters are also taxpayers and electors, "public school authorities...may be expending wasted efforts by categorically opposing the establishment and financing of…

Summarizes events at the 76th annual meeting of the National Association of Secondary School Principals in February 1992. Although innovation was a hot topic, so were budget problems and "administrivia" threats to school-based management. Other topics included learning styles, business-school partnerships, school choice, and public aid…

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Plan permits up to 1,000 low-income Milwaukee students to attend private, nonsectarian schools, paying participating schools about $2,500 for each participant. However, handicapped students received scant accommodation, and educational standards applying to public schools are not required of private schools.…

CASE's 1984 Volunteer of the Year award went to Frank Owen Heywood Williams for his work with Renbrook School, where he founded a Grandparents' Group six years ago. He has raised funds for colleges, independent schools, hospitals, ballet companies, music festivals, and political parties (MLW)

Good development officers in elementary and high schools need to be aware of planned giving and knowledgeable about a variety of gift categories. Most school-development directors are not experts in this complex field. Yet, when a school decides to initiate a planned-giving program, the director of development must make a serious commitment to…

The article is an historical account of the establishment of a new voluntary aided secondary school, named Nottingham Emmanuel School. The national and local contexts are established and discussed in practical and theological reflective ways by examining four key questions; (1) will the church take risks in education; (2) can the church deliver in…

An overview of several countries' experiences in financing private elementary and secondary education is provided in this paper. The first section presents some general observations about government finance of private schools. These observations are drawn from experience in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Netherlands.…

This document presents a description and evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program designed to serve approximately 13,769 eligible, educationally deprived pupils in 229 nonpublic schools of New York City during the 1974-1975 school year. The purpose of the program was to improve the reading level of the students through a corrective…

Provides information on the background, functions, achievements, and current projects of the Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools (BLOCS), a resource development effort for the 282 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. (DMM)