Trump, Congress urged to make ‘access to quality education’ a priority cruxnow.com

Two U.S. cardinals and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have an urgent message for President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress: The next emergency stimulus package must help tuition-paying families keep their Catholic and other nonpublic schools open this fall.

“Doing so is right for parents, children and their devoted teachers who depend on these schools,” said Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the USCCB.

“With Congress now back in session to consider next steps to sustain Americans through the COVID-19 pandemic,” they said, “access to quality education” must be high on the list of provisions in the larger “urgently needed plan to sustain our nation” as it tries to recover economically amid the COVID-19 pandemic.