That’s the subtitle of my new story in Education Next, about an experiment to take a successful religious school education model to the public sector.

Let the walls come tumbling down!

Not so fast.  I have been writing about Catholic schools for a while – see my 2007 Ed Next story Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?, Fordham’s 2008 report, Who Will Save America’s Urban Catholic Schools? , and in Flypaper – and had not encountered anything quite like what these education reformers were attempting in the Windy City. These are not Catholic schools — well, not in the traditional sense.

http://educationnext.org/how-the-christian-brothers-came-to-start-two-charter-schools-in-chicago/