Inner city education by the Catholics

Sol Stern and Patrick McCloskey writing for City Journal, provide the usual City instructive piece that makes the case for the value of the early education experience offered to inner city minority and poor by the Catholic church.  It is very clear that simply throwing money at the dysfunctional public school system doesn't work.  Unions and politically correct policies imposed by the political class assure that teaching and learning of these particularly needy children will not produce positive results.  Some charter schools are having a positive effect in changing the education culture, however as this article tells us, at the expense of less will financed Catholic schools now closing two of their inner city schools for every one new charter school opened.  A visit by Sol Stern to one of these endangered Catholic schools reveals why they have been successful teaching these children, far exceeding the results obtained by the public schools and even many of the charter schools.  This  article explains the whys of their success which has a lot to due with discipline and the dedication of the instructors, and the religious values underlying the daily learning experience.  Their approach is about the opposite of that of the state run schools.

ADDED:  Here is an article on the massive move on the part of organized labor to unionize charter schools, which in large part owe their success to not being unionized.