FREDERIC J. BROWN
Students attend morning prayers in the courtyard at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California, on Nov. 16, 2020, where pre-kindergarten to second-grade students in need of special services returned to the classroom for in-person instruction. The campus was the second Catholic school in Los Angeles County to receive a waiver approval to reopen as the coronavirus pandemic raged on.

The outgoing president backed federal aid for Catholic schools hammered by the pandemic and reversed Obama’s school bathroom rules, but the long-term impact of his school-choice campaign is unclear.