Private schools feel pinch of recession
About 100 teenage heads bowed in prayer as students attended a midday chapel service at Mount Vernon Christian School. A faith-based message is something that some parents want their children to receive in a school setting, but the nationwide recession is affecting the finances of private religious schools just like everything else. As a result, those schools are having to go beyond their normal avenues to find the to find the money needed to continue their mission. Kate Martin, Skagit Valley Herald, December 8, 2009