Complex sentence: Charitably funded Roman Catholic schools were brought into the state system by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918, introducing state funding of Catholic schools which kept their distinct religious education, access to schools by Catholic clergy and requirement that school staff be acceptable to the Church.
Split into simpler sentences: Charitably funded Roman Catholic schools were brought into the state system by the Education (Scotland) Act 1918. This introduced state funding of Catholic schools which kept their distinct religious education, access to schools by Catholic clergy and requirement that school staff be acceptable to the Church.