Saving New York's Catholic high schools by making them independent?

Newsday: 10 NY Catholic high schools to be independent

NEW YORK - Ten Catholic high schools in New York City and Westchester will become independently operating schools run by local boards of directors.

OK, I don't know the real reason for this. However, I don't think it is designed to break the power of the unions which represent the teachers at these schools.

As "independent", of course, there is no commitment to maintaining a Catholic identity and a Catholic character to the schools.

These schools were built with the donations of hundreds of thousands of Catholics in the pews over a century. Now they are to be "gifted" to lay local boards of directors.

Let's look at this in 10 years and see if these schools remain "Catholic" in any sense.