About this episode

Erika investigates the rising costs of Catholic schools and the impact on working-class families.

What happened to free Catholic schools? For generations, working-class families could send every child to Catholic school on a single income. Today, many can't afford even one. Erika investigates how America's largest private-school network was built, why it unraveled, and who's trying to save it. Watch The Deep on Zeale: https://zeale.co/podcasts/the-deep

People in this episode

Host: Erika

Topics covered

• Catholic education
• school funding
• working-class families
• private schools
• education policy

Keywords

• Catholic schools
• education costs
• private school network
• working-class
• school affordability

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Organizations: Catholic schools

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