What will the Catholic school do to hold down the costs?
Our diocese is going to be the first in Michigan to have its own school district. Not the whole diocese, because it is huge, but a district nonetheless. All Catholic schools in Lansing and several more from surrounding communities will be in the district. Everything, financially, will be standardized, from teacher salaries and benefits, tuition, and everything else that comes with a price tag--books, computers, internet access, the whole nine yards. You save when you buy in bulk; you save more when you buy in bigger bulk. We'll know in a few years if it's true. Tuition will go up at some schools and decrease at others this coming fall.
You wrote:
“I apologize; I misread your post.”
Could happen to anybody, thanks.
“What will the Catholic school do to hold down the costs?”
I have no idea. I don’t think there’s much they can do. Since Catholic schools employ lay teachers by-and-large today, there is simply no way to save money on the faculty (more than they do so now by paying low wages and having not-so-great benefits). Add to that problem that fact that most Catholic school administrators in diocesan schools are limited in their options and have little ingenuity in raising money (or at least have done little to do so until recent years), and the future looks pretty bleak. REALLY expensive Catholic schools attended by rich kids are doing extremely well. Take Providence Academy in Plymouth, Minnesota, for example. $14,000 a year tuition and they have families dying to get their kids in there! But those are wealthy families. Look in the parking lot and you don’t see any broken down family cars being driven by the upper classmen. They spent $41,000,000 building their school. Forty-one million. Amazing.