Long a major force in American1 education, new Roman Catholic elementary and secondary schools continue to open in such geographically diverse locations as Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Orlando (Zehr, 2005). At the same time, schools in such places as the Diocese of Brooklyn, the only all-urban diocese in the USA, and home to some of the oldest Catholic schools in the nation, schools continue to close (Newman, 2005). As a result, the Catholic schools' share of the nonpublic school population continues to decline. Yet, even in light of this steady decline, Catholic schools remain the largest nonpublic school “system” in the USA (see Figure 1). In reality, it should be kept in mind that Catholic schools are not as much a system as a loosely coupled collection of independent schools.1
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Cattaro, G.M., Cooper, B.S. (2007). Developments in Catholic Schools in the USA: Politics, Policy, and Prophesy. In: Grace, G., O’Keefe, J. (eds) International Handbook of Catholic Education. International Handbooks of Religion and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5776-2_4
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