Word: parochiaid
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...reckoning, the high court's "parochiaid" rulings have walked, or wobbled along, a fine line, with public assistance to religious schools sometimes rejected, sometimes approved. In certain circumstances, as Burger noted, a state may lend textbooks to parochial students, and it may pay their bus fare. In 1983 the court upheld a Minnesota law permitting parents to deduct private school tuition from their state income taxes. The court's increasing tolerance toward state-church collaboration in general seemed even clearer when the Minnesota ruling was followed by two decisions allowing a publicly paid legislative chaplain in Nebraska and a publicly...
...most comprehensive those of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. As one Pennsylvania legislator explained: "It costs us $850 to educate a child in the public schools, but we could keep a child in the [Catholic] schools for only $37 a year in state aid." But the new measures-tediously dubbed "parochiaid"-have raised a troublesome question. Do they purchase parochial school survival at the price of violating the First Amendment's command to make "no law respecting an establishment of religion...
Litigation on parochiaid is likely to go on for several years. But lawyers are fairly sure that Lemon's broad principles, plus the anti-aid line-up reflected by the court's near unanimity, will eventually require a drastic rearrangement of Catholic education. For one thing, tuitions will have to go up, and poorer parents will simply be unable to afford the higher fees. In Philadelphia, for instance, the loss of the archdiocese's $19 million in aid under the state program will force the price of a year's tuition at parochial high schools close...
...education altogether and concentrate on quality religious instruction. Indeed, many parochial schools ultimately may subside into a variety of Sunday schools, akin to those of Protestant churches. But many other Catholic spokesmen are not yet willing to concede defeat. They plan to shift their efforts to support of other parochiaid formulas that are still largely untested in the courts...
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