Parochial school

In 2002, Frank Dobson proposed an amendment to the Education Bill (for England and Wales) which would limit the selection rights of faith schools by requiring them to offer at least a quarter of places to children of another or no religion, in order to increase inclusivity and lessening social division.

I worry that many young people are being educated in faith-based schools, with little appreciation of their wider responsibilities and obligations to British society.

[8] The general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Mary Bousted, said "Unless there are crucial changes in the way many faith schools run we fear divisions in society will be exacerbated.

In our increasingly multi-faith and secular society it is hard to see why our taxes should be used to fund schools which discriminate against the majority of children and potential staff because they are not of the same faith".

Doctor Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, has called for them to be subject to government inspection following publication of a 2006 report which highlighted widespread physical and sexual abuse.

Charitably funded Roman Catholic schools were brought into the state system by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918.

Many fundamentalist Christian schools use curriculum from Abeka Books and Bob Jones University Press.

In some Canadian provinces Catholic schools are publicly funded and in Ontario completely to the level of grade 12.

Often, the Catholic diocese or archdiocese, such as those in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago will take a greater role in administration of the parochial schools within their jurisdiction.

Although it costs parents more for their children to attend, teachers are generally paid less than those at an equivalent public school.

[15] The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) operates an extensive parochial school system.

In the third period (1910–1945), Catholic education was modernized and modeled after the public school systems, and ethnicity was deemphasized in many areas.

In cities with large Catholic populations (such as Chicago and Boston) there was a flow of teachers, administrators, and students from one system to the other.

[17] In addition to the Catholics, the German Lutherans and Calvinist Dutch also began parochial schools, as did Orthodox Jews.

In 2002, the United States Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law allowing aid under specific circumstances.

In December 2018, Ed Mechmann, the director of public policy at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York noted that the new regulations from the New York State Education Department would "give local school boards virtually unlimited power over private religious schools.

[23] Since the Spanish Era, schools have been traditionally run by the predominant Catholic Church and its different religious institutes, such as the Order of Preachers and the Society of Jesus.