While the overall child poverty rate may be historically low after a recovery from the pandemic, there are more specific measures of economic vulnerability for children that are still alarming.
As Catholic colleges grapple with how to reopen in the fall, many are already saying they will require their students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and some schools are also mandating that staff members be vaccinated.
The right to an education should respect parental priorities for what values should be learned in school, writes Quentin Wodon of the Global Catholic Education project, and that means school choice.