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Religious Education
| Religious education teaches the doctrines of a religion. Its usual purpose is to teach children the basics of a religion. A less common purpose is to teach new adherents of a religion. | |
Parochial Schools
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A parochial school is a type of private school which engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. Parochial schools are typically grammar schools or high schools run by churches or parishes. |
| Private schools, in the United States, Australia, Scotland, and other English-speaking countries, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds. In Australia the use of the term is generally restricted to primary and secondary educational levels, and not applied to college or tertiary-levels | |
| In the United States, a charter school is a school that is created via a legal charter. Usually (a) they are created with an express purpose or philosophy and (b) typically they are controlled in-house and not controlled by the local school district. Laws governing them vary from state to state.; | |
| A Christian school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. | |
| In the United Kingdom, there are a large number of 'local authority maintained' (ie state funded) Catholic schools. These are open to pupils of all faiths or none - although if the school is over-subscribed priority is usually given to Catholic children. |
