Don't Think for a Minute

the vulture philanthropists, who have had their own children in private schools, are limiting their destructive "reforms" to traditional public schools. It appears now Catholic schools are coming under scrutiny, and never mind they aren't bound by the same rules as public or charter schools if they don't take public money:

Historically, parochial schools have fared slightly better in standardized tests than public schools, partly because as private institutions they are not bound by law to take all comers, as public schools are.

But the effort to bring charter-school standards of accountability to a system once dominated by parish priests and their staffs has created some tensions between patrons and school administrators. At one school in the Bronx, a principal wanted to spend a donor’s money on a gym, which he considered crucial to attracting new students, while the donor wanted to stock a new library. The school got the library, but closed soon afterward because of declining enrollment.

It's isn't "partly" because of frontloading the schools with high-achieving students that parochial students do better on standardized tests. It's the whole thing. When a school can pick and choose which students to admit, OF COURSE the test scores will fare better. But these schools have severe problems keeping staff; most leave when they can secure public education jobs because parochial schools may pay only 50 or 60 percent of public school pay, if that. It's also the same thing for the vast majority of non-religious private schools.

I doubt the private schools are going to want the vultures picking on the bones of their schools.