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It\u2019s the charter school system, according to this analysis from Education Week: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The nation\u2019s Roman Catholic schools have labored for decades under increasingly adverse economic and demographic conditions, which have undermined their finances and sapped their enrollment. Today, researchers and supporters say those schools face one of their most complex challenges yet: the continued growth of charter schools.<\/p>\n

Since they first opened two decades ago, charter schools have emerged as competitors to Catholic schools for reasons connected to school systems\u2019 missions, their academic models, and the populations they serve.<\/p>\n

Charter schools, which as public schools are free of tuition, have their strongest presence in urban centers, traditional strongholds of Catholic education. Many charter schools tout attributes similar to those offered by the church\u2019s schools, such as disciplined environments, an emphasis on personal responsibility and character development, and distinctive instructional and curricular approaches.<\/p>\n

Those competitive pressures are coming into new focus with the release of research and analysis that attempts to quantify the extent to which Catholic schools\u2019 enrollment is slipping as a result of charter school growth\u2014and seeks to offer strategies for how the church\u2019s schools might rebound.<\/p>\n

\u201cCatholic schools cannot compete with charter schools that look like them, and have a longer school day, and school uniforms\u2014and which are free,\u201d said Abraham M. Lackman, a scholar-in-residence at the Albany Law School, in Albany, N.Y., and the author of a forthcoming paper on the shift of students from Catholic schools to charters. As political support for charters grows and their enrollment expands, the number of Catholic schools will fall, he predicted, and \u201cwe have to decide whether that\u2019s good public policy or not.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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