Maryland lawmakers came to an agreement Friday afternoon over a popular scholarship for non-public school students that faced cuts this legislative session.
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Catholic schools in our inner-urban areas, like the new, state-of-the-art Mother Mary Lange School in Baltimore, are the most effective anti-poverty program the U.S. Church has ever devised and they serve students from many religious backgrounds.