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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, April 13, 1972
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BY SUE CRIBARI
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — Catholic educators attending the recent National
Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) convention here got some major
encouragement about the federal government’s intent to help keep the financially
strapped nonpublic school system going.
President Nixon, U. S., Education Commissioner Sidney P. Marland, Jr., and
other top government officials were among speakers at the April 3-6 NCEA
convention, attracting more than 12,500 Catholic educators from around the
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Besides sessions on the
financial crisis facing many
Catholic schools, the 69th
annual convention had
speakers and workshops on a
long list of topics revolving
around the theme, “Catholic
Education - a National
Asset.” They ranged from
updating educational
equipment and curricula to
pin-pointing the educational
philosophy underlying the
Catholic school.
In a surprise appearance
on the closing day of the
convention, President Nixon
said he was “irrevocably
committed” to the
propositions that “America
needs her nonpublic schools”
and that “we must and will
find ways” to provide the aid
the schools need.
Nixon cautioned, however,
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that he did not want to make
promises “which cannot be
kept nor raise hopes which
wiil later be disappointed,”
citing the “grave
constitutional questions”
which have arisen before
when the state and federal
governments have tried to
provide nonpublic aid.
With these “hard realities”
in mind, the President said, “I
feel the only responsible way
to proceed is to take the
extra time required to
guarantee that the legislative
recommendations which we
finally submit will be
equitable, will be workable,
will be constitutional, and so
held by the Supreme Court.”
Nixon said he had
submitted to a bipartisan
federal commission “certain
proposals and alternatives”
relating to the findings of his
Commission on School
Finance, which recently
intend to carry it out ...”
Several “progress reports”
on the current status of
nonpublic aid legislation were
provided for Catholic school
officials at the NCEA
convention, including a
briefing for about 100
superintendents, diocesan
education directors and
others on tax credit proposals
now pending before the ways
and means committee of the
U.S. House of Representa
tives.
Dr. Edward R. D’Alessio,
director of the U.S. Catholic
Conference (USCC)
elementary and secondary
education division, described
the tax credit concept -
which would allow parents to
subtract some educational
costs from their final federal
income tax assessment.
D’Alessio said one bill
pending before the ways and
Nixon’s Message
President Nixon addressed the National Catholic Educational
Association Convention April 6, telling delegates to the
Philadelphia meeting that he is “irrevocably committed to the
proposition that America needs her non-public schools” and
that “we must and will find ways to provide” the help these
schools need.
Nixon said he views current problems confronting non-public
schools as a “crisis of the first magnitude” and added that the
threat of losing these schools constitutes a threat to the
well-being of the public school system as well.
Reiterating his recently stated views on busing, Nixon
explained he favors better education rather'than - “more
transportation,” and said his legislative proposals would increase
the average amount of per pupil assistance in disadvantaged
areas from $200 to more than $300. Research, Nixon said,
shows that sums in excess of $300 constitute the “critical mass”
which begins to produce the results that smaller amounts have
failed to achieve.
In the course of his address, Nixon explained other
legislation he plans to recommend but cautioned delegates that
“we are all aware of the very grave constitutional questions that
have arisen in the past” and, moreover “we are all aware of the
extra difficulties which tax measures encounter in Congress
during an election year.” Thus, he said, “I feel the only
responsible way to proceed is to take the extra time required to
guarantee that the legislative recommendations which we finally
submit will be equitable, workable, and constitutional.”
recommended revamping the
property tax-based system of
financing the nation’s public
schools, and consideration of
“more substantive” aid for
nonpublic schools.
means committee, where tax
legislation originates, would
mean an estimated total tax
credit figure of $500 million
to the parents of nonpublic
school children.
When the bipartisan
commission completes its
study, Nixon said, he will
make “specific legislative
recommendations” to
Congress, including
“measures designed to
preserve the nonpublie school
system in the United States.”
During his speech on
“Public Policy and the Private
Schools” which opened the
NCEA convention, Education
Commissioner Marland said
his office would work to
insure that eligible nonpublic
school students received all
the educational services they
are entitled to under present
federal laws.
Marland said available
statistics suggest “that
nonpublic students are not in
fact receiving” the equitable
treatment called for in federal
programs such as aid to
educationally disadvantaged
students.
“Correcting this is
not . . .favoritism toward
private education,” he said.
“It is purely a matter of
carrying out the law, and we
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A total of 13 tax credit
bills have been submitted to
the House committee since it
reconvened in January.
Father C. Albert Koob,
NCEA president, said at a
press conference during the
convention that he thought
chances for Congressional
approval of some tax credit
plan this year were “good to
excellent.”
At other NCEA sessions,
delegates heard about
developments in new
curriculum areas which are
emerging, like peace, drug
and environmental education.
They heard Dr. George
Elford, NCEA research
director, say that future
acceptance and support of
Catholic schools depends
largely “on the degree to
which Catholic educators
conceptually identify and
practically realize” the
uniqueness of their
institutions.
Father Bernard Cummins,
San Francisco archdiocesan
school superintendent,
underlined this uniqueness his
convention speech describing
the Catholic school as “a
community of faith.”
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President Nixon is greeted by Cardinal John Krol (right) and Mayor Frank Rizzo (left) as he arrives
in Philadelphia to address the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.
What Makes School i Catholic’?
NCEA Has Some Answers
BY SUE CRIBARI
PHILADELPHIA (NC) — Catholic education’s future depends largely on the
degree to which Catholic educators identify and develop the uniqueness of their
institutions, an official of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)
said here.
Speaking at the 69th
annual NCEA convention, Dr.
George Elford, the
association’s research
director, said most Catholics
agree that Catholic schools
“have a unique and desireable
quality not found in public
schools, however hard it is to
define.”
To help Catholic school
officials start thinking about
“what it is that makes a
school ‘Catholic,’ Elford said,
the NCEA research
department sent out a
107-item questionnaire early
this year to 415 Catholic
elementary schools around
the nation.
What has emerged from an
initial review of the 224
questionnaires sent back,
Elford disclosed, is a clear
picture of three distinct types
of Catholic schools - liberal,
conservative and “typical.”
He said the third, by far the
largest type, chooses
something from each of the
other basic types.
“In the typical school,” he
said, “religion class is taught
at an assigned time, usually
by the home room teacher.
Basic prayers are memorized,
formal prayers are offered at
stated times during the day,
and crucifixes and religious
pictures are displayed.”
At the same time, he said,
“a variety of prayer
experiences are promoted,”
students join in planning
liturgies, attendance at daily
Mass is not required, and
Sadlier, Benziger or Paulist
Press textbooks are used.
The faculty at the typical
Catholic school “eats
together and shares a
common faculty lounge,”
Elford added.
Besides tallying up the
number of identical responses
to the questionnaire, NCEA
researchers also constructed a
“correlation matrix.”
‘‘Every item was
correlated with every other
item to see which items
‘clung together,’ ” explained
Elford.
He pointed out that
correlation does not mean
cause. Rather, the NCEA
discovered that when school
officials answered one
questionnaire item a certain
way they tended to answer
other questionnaire items in
identical ways.
Elford said one question
was whether nuns always
wear complete religious garb
while at school. The study
showed that schools
responding yes to that
question were also likely to
answer yes when asked:
whether “students in the
middle grades are expected to
be able to name in order the
Ten Commandments,”
whether nuns eat lunch in a
separate area such as the
convent, whether all or
almost all students, “are
required to attend the daily
school Mass,” and whether a
faculty member “censors
student publications to avoid
improprieties of undue
criticism of the school.”
The study also showed
schools answering yes to
requiring religious garb would
be likely to answer no to the
question of whether “a few
‘reasonable’ liberties” - such
as communion in the hand,
no vestments and different
Mass texts - are sometimes
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