Over at CATO, Andrew Coulson blogs about our Catholic schools report, and says:
It's hard to compete when the other??guy (read:??state-run schools) spends about twice as much per pupil but gives his service away for "free."
It's hard but not impossible. Andrew should check out our chapter on Wichita, which explains how that diocese has made Catholic schools free, too, for all Catholics. They did it by asking all parishioners to tithe a significant portion of their salaries; the response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. You might say that Church members agreed to pay a voluntary tax. I wonder what the libertarians at CATO would think about that.
