12.1
and 11.8 percent, respectively. In California during 1979, Baptist and
Episcopal schools both educated higher percentages of black students
(12.5 and 17 percent, respectively) than did public schools (10.1 per-
cent). And while 1975 U.S. Census data from the Northeast showed
public schools trailing private schools in their share of students drawn
from families earning $30,000 or more, the difference was surprisingly
small (10.4 versus 16.7 percent). As one researcher put it, America's...