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Battalion/Page 4B
March 25, 1982
Hispanic, blacks grow
in Catholic schools
United Press International
The Cardinal Hayes High
School band, strutting proud
ly in New York’s St. Patrick’s
Day parade, didn’t completely
resemble the Hayes’ band of a
generation ago.
The uniforms were much
the same, but most of the faces
of the youths joining in the
salute to Ireland’s patron saint
were black or Hispanic — just
one more sign of the biggest
trend in urban Catholic
schools today. Enrollment of
minority youths has nearly
doubled in a decade, up to 19
percent of total enrollment
from 10.8 percent in 1971.
A generation earlier,
whiteskinned Hayes’ lads
beating drums, tootling flutes
and blowing trumpets were
descendants of Irish, Ger
man, Polish, Italian families.
But the Bronx, N.Y.,
houses and apartments where
they lived are now sheltering
Black and Hispanic families
whose hopes for the future of
their children — as the Irish,
German, Polish and Italian
families before them — are
placed in a Catholic school
education.
The same scenario is re
peating in inner city Catholic
schools across the nation,
according to a report from the
National Catholic Educational
Association in Washington,
DC.
In contrast, the reports in
dicates, the student bodies of
private Catholic schools —
academy or prep — located in
suburban communities re
main predominantly white,
coming from families able to
pay the higher “private
Catholic school” tuition.
Dr. Bruno Manno, a Marist
brother and NCEA director
of research, released the re-
Another trend in
Catholic schools is the
shift from predomi
nantly religious facul
ty — brothers and
nuns — to a predomi
nantly lay or secular
faculty, Manno's re
port shows.
port Tuesday at the annual
meeting of the American
Educational Research Asso
ciation in New York.
Catholic schools come in
four types: private — usually
operated by a religious order
such as the Franciscans,
Dominicans, Jesuits, Christian
Brothers; parish — operated
by a parish; inter-parish —
run by two or more parishes;
and diocesan — attached to a
diocese.
This year there are 7,996
Catholic elementary and
1,498 secondary schools, 65
fewer than last year. Manno
said the decline is the smallest
since the 1960s — the decade
of peak Catholic school enroll
ment.
This year the enrollment is
down about 12,000 from last
year’s to 3,049,000, a 0.4 per
cent decrease, the smallest
since the 1960s.
Private education of all
types last year accounted for
10.9 percent of elementary
and secondary enrollment —
up 0.4 percent over 1970 —
and Catholic school enroll
ment in 1978-79 accounted
for 64 percent of that. The
Catholic schools had 87 per
cent of all private school en
rollment in the United States
in 1965. That was their peak.
Another trend in Catholic
schools is the shift from pre
dominantly religious faculty
— brothers and nuns — to a
predominantly lay or secular
faculty, Manno’s report
shows.
In the 1960s about three of
four elementary and high
school teachers were mem
bers of religious orders. That
has just about reversed itself
in the last 15 years.
In the schools where reli
gious teach, the operating ex
pense report shows which
only about 10 percent of the
total budget is attributed to
their “contributed services”
because nuns and brothers
don’t get as much pay as secu
lar (non-religious) teachers.
The operating tab in
Catholic elementary schools
reached $1.5 billion last year.
National per pupil cost is esti
mated at $653 — not counting
the contributed services by re
ligious.
The bill in Catholic high
schools was $1,127 billion, up
$195 million over 1978-79.
The national per pupil cost in
Catholic high schools is esti
mated at $1,347.
Revenues and expenses
vary with the type of high
school. The estimated average
tuition, however, is $970. Tui
tion in the high schools, low in
past decades, now produces
two-thirds of all revenue; the
difference between expenses
and tuition comes from con
tributed and donated services
and subsidies from parishes,
religious orders or dioceses.
In 1981-82, Catholic
elementary school revenue,
on a national basis, came from
the following: 50 percent,
parish subsidies; 40 percent,
tuition; 10 percent, all other.
This year, about half of the
elementary schools charge
tuition of $400 or over; the
other half, less.
Manno said the shif t from
religious to lay faculty has
been the outstanding single
factor affecting the Catholic
high school financial picture.
Total fulltime faculty in the
Catholic schools went up 400
to 146,200 teachers in 1981-
82.
Louisiana escapee captured;
six prisoners still at large
United Press Internationa!
IVERNESS, Fla. — A man
who sawed his way out of a
Louisiana jail with six other in
mates has been captured by de
puties w'ho received a tip from
the fugitive’s mother.
Robert Leslie Odom, 19, of
Danella, Fla., escaped the St.
Tammany Parish jail in Coving
ton, La., March 15. He was
arrested about 10:30 p in. Tues
day, after his mother informed
Citrus County deputies Odom
was at her home, said Sgt.
Robert Horton. Odom was
arrested without incident.
St. Tammany deputies were
to fly to Iverness later today to
return Odom to Louisiana. He
was awaiting trial on auto theft
charges when he escaped.
Five other inmates who fled
with Odom remain at large and
police in several states were aid
ing in the search for them, St.
Tammany Parish Capt. Bill
Dobson said.
“We do have several leads
we’re following up on,” he said.
“We do believe that all but two of
them have left the state of
Louisiana. We do have surveill
ance in several areas both inside
and outside Louisiana.”
Dobson earlier said up to
three of the fugitives were be
lieved to have hitchhiked to
Florida.
The men used hacksaw blades
to cut an 18-inch hole through
their cell wall and fled after
climbing through the jail’s air
vents.
A former inmate and a jail
trustee accused with smuggling on later were charged with
the hacksaw blades into the pris- ing the escape.
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Baylor faces suit
on discrimination
United Press International
DALLAS —The U.S. Depart
ment of Justice has filed a feder
al lawsuit to block federal fund
ing for Baylor University Medic
al Center which is under a f eder
al investigation for alleged dis
crimination.
The petition f iled Tuesday in
the court of U.S. District Judge
Robert Hill charged Baylor of fi
cials had denied access to its pre
mises and not provided infor
mation to the federal investiga
tors.
Federal officials want to
know if Baylor violated a federal
act which states that no hand
icapped persons will be discri
minated in a facility receiving
federal funding.
The suit stemmed from a
1980 complaint filed by a deaf
woman who charged she was de
nied access to a sign-language
interpreter.
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