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Wall Street Journal
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Why Catholic Charter Schools Are a Risky Bet
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn's Weekend Interview with Tunku Varadarajan ('Harvard and the View From Hillsdale,' April 19) gives new life to the eternal truth that government money is never free. While their conversation comes in the context of the Trump administration's battle with Harvard and other higher-education elite, the lesson extends to the idea of religious charter schools that will be argued before the Supreme Court this week ('The Court Should Bless Religious Charters' by Nicole Stelle Garnett, Houses of Worship, April 25). The minute you say 'yes' to government money, you get government's rules and oversight. In the world of charter schools, where state regulators can shut you down, you're looking at potential coercion. For the Catholic Church, that can mean having your license and funding predicated on instruction and policies that contradict your teachings. Think discussions of abortion in health class or gender-specific bathroom policies. The cost of being a Catholic charter school would be the very catholicity that makes a Catholic school different, distinct and important.
Wall Street Journal
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Harvard Can't Embrace the ‘Hillsdale Model'
In 'Harvard and the View From Hillsdale' (Weekend Interview, April 19), Tunku Varadarajan writes that Hillsdale President Larry Arnn 'believes the real problem—a moral crisis, even—was that 'Harvard and Columbia couldn't define a reason to stop' ' protests that disrupted their campuses. Even worse were the affirmative responses, such as that of Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, where protesters violated multiple university rules to establish a 'Wesleyan Liberated Zone,' defaced sidewalks and buildings and issued demands. Mr. Roth announced he wouldn't clear the encampment even while acknowledging it violated the rules. A week later, he wrote that he had received many notes from alumni, parents and others criticizing his failure to enforce the rules, but that 'context matters' and 'cops don't always give people tickets for going a few miles over the speed limit.' 'I admire that they're not entirely taken up with grades or lining up their credentials,' he wrote of the protesters, before entering into an agreement with them, granting various demands.
