id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-009198 ND Expert: Preserving Catholic schools will require universal effort | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 823 28 51 Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., professor of political science and director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), led the task force study and says the decline in enrollment in Catholic schools is largely due to finances. [There has been] a complete turnover in terms of the kind of leadership and staffing that we have in Catholic schools from 90-some-percent in the 1960s religious ñ who by their gift to the church subsidized Catholic schools at the time ñ to 95 percent today lay, who also subsidize by the gift of their salaries, which are lower than the public sector, but extraordinarily higher than the religious who subsidized and made these schools possible, built those schools. cache/news-009198.html txt/news-009198.txt