The Washington Post, February 5th, 1989
FOR YEARS many inner-city, low-income parents unhappy with the public schools have looked to the Catholic schools to perform what might as well, for lack of a better word, be called miracles. Urban parochial institutions have frequently delivered on the expectation over the years, charging much lower tuition than most private schools and serving a high proportion of minority youngsters-and sending many on to college, an achievement that has made them the stuff of frequent comparison with the public schools by officials critical of the latter. The parochial high schools in particular have, howe...
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