Big city of faith: New York and the Catholic Church

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Economics has a lot to do with it; so does a changing culture; so does the rise of charter schools, which have stepped in to provide free, high-quality public alternatives rather than private ones.
53% : We're not for using taxpayer dollars to directly subsidize religious education, but a federal tax credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations would help.
38% : And though we're loath to see the Supreme Court OK religious charter schools, if that happens and New York doesn't scrap or totally overhaul its current law allowing independently run public schools, it could well lead to Catholic schools surviving by entering the charter fold.

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