Tentative Victories

Much evidence of a concerted campaign against “non-public” schools—that is, church-related and independent schools—may be discerned nowadays. The National Labor Relations Board has been endeavoring to compel church schools to engage in collective bargaining with their teachers. The Internal Revenue Service orders these schools to present evidence of having implemented “affirmative action” toward racial integration—or lose their tax exemptions. Moreover, these schools have been directed, for the first time, to pay federal employment taxes.

This harassment by agencies of the Federal Government has been paralleled by the assaults of certain state departments of public instruction upon independent and church-related schools, particularly the Christian schools of an evangelical or fundamentalist character, which have been increasing in number and enrollment.

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Much evidence of a concerted campaign against “non-public” schools—that is, church-related and independent schools—may be discerned nowadays. The National Labor Relations Board has been endeavoring to compel church schools to engage in collective bargaining with their teachers. The Internal Revenue Service orders these schools to present evidence of having implemented “affirmative action” toward racial integration—or lose their tax exemptions. Moreover, these schools have been directed, for the first time, to pay federal employment taxes.

This harassment by agencies of the Federal Government has been paralleled by the assaults of certain state departments of public instruction upon independent and church-related schools, particularly the Christian schools of an evangelical or fundamentalist character, which have been increasing in number and enrollment.