In a medium/large city near me in New York the city school board is paying the Catholic Church or technically it’s “Catholic Charities” to provide social workers in the public schools. Catholic Charities in turn takes 47% of the grant money as overhead and essentially provides no overhead function other than cutting a pay check. It’s quite a racket. Catholic Charities hires young social workers, or recent grads, who do have credentials, they are paid peanuts and are totally unaware of the graft by Catholic Charities. The social workers are made to think they are pursuing a noble effort. It‘s important to note, the city school board is aware of the graft going on, but it suits their motives quite well. The Catholic Church is in the business of running elementary schools and the city school board has effectively bought off their chief, would be, critic. And, if this is all exposed it ultimately discredit the Catholic Church and not the poor souls on the city school board that were duped. You see, the city school board wins either way, better honey than vinegar -but either will do.
In the inner cities, the Catholic Church is now more and more just another non-profit feeding off government grant money. I have no doubt this scam is going on all over.
Good and not so good. what's left of the Catholic parochial schools are often one of the few ...very few ... ways that an inner city black kid is going to get a half-way decent education and perhaps some structure in his life outside of home (hopefully). In the back of the Bishops' minds might be the "Irish Plan" scheme. In Ireland, (the Republic) the gov pays whatever school the parents select, be it private, Catholic, Church of Ireland, etc., for the kid. This paid competition has had a very good effect on the public schools, which are also of course, available.
Right now, many of the inner city "Charter Schools" are scams funneling tax dollars to very suspicious 501C3s. (They didn't name that boy SHARP-ton for no reason).
Here in Maine, Catholic Charities is directly responsible for our current plague of Somali Muslims (don't turn me in!). Somehow, the late Baldacci Administration and CC got together to import huge numbers of Muslim Somali Border Bandits heretofore known only for camel and goat rustling, into Maine. Get'em on welfare, get'em into housing (one Section 8 for each of the current four wives). Get'em into schools. (All 31 children and the male children refusing direction from female teachers and trying to gang-rape "infidel" girls on the playground). Get 'em into the ER to repair their female circumcision damage.
Catholic Charities? Working with Government? Good idea? Bad Idea?