Meanwhile the faculty in Catholic schools make considerably less in salary and bennies than their public school counterparts.
This is not to say turning over the educrat establishment to the Catholics is the answer to the problem.
You will find the same performance gap if you compare schools run by other Christian denominations to the public schools. It is just that the Catholic school system is so large and so old that libtards cannot easily dismiss it as data bias due to cherry picking students, though they still try.
The Christian schools don’t need to take over the school system by mandate. The free market will naturally weed out those schools which allow depravity and crime to foster within their environment. The ACLU and the NEA know this, and fight to maintain our public schools. As long as teachers’ unions are allowed to exist, public schools will continue to churn out failures.