Opinion

How Private Schools Have Profited From the Pandemic

CHURCH AND STATE

The basic American tenet of public schools supported by taxpayers for the common good is being left behind in a selfish bid by private schools for no-strings-attached public help.

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America's 30,000 private schools have used their political might to divert billions of dollars in federal COVID relief from public schools starved of local and state assistance, using the pandemic to substantially expand their decades-long push for public funding far beyond their valuable basic privileges of tax-exemption and deductible donations. 

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