ABSTRACT
Since the war, vast educational changes have taken place throughout much of the world. As the facilities in state schools improve, the parochial schools desire to emulate them in order to prevent the intake of children from dropping. This may mean providing scientific laboratories and specialist equipment and rooms for language teaching. Even a brief survey of the way countries deal with the issue of financing parochial schools shows that many arrangements have been made ranging from the state bearing the total costs of such schools to opposition to support of any kind. The chapter looks at the arrangements made in five countries to illustrate different attitudes and current problems. The arrangements made at 1944 divided parochial schools into two categories ' voluntary controlled ' and ' voluntary aided'. In the United States the situation is further complicated in that many Jews and Protestants oppose state aid to parochial schools since the Catholics would be the chief beneficiaries.
