The Catholic Culture website reports today (January 7, 2012) that the Philadelphia archdiocese plans to close 48 Catholic schools, as part of a sweeping program designed to restore economic stability to an endangered parochial-school system.
Four Catholic high schools will be closed, and 44 primary schools will be closed or folded into other existing Catholic schools.
The closings were recommended by a blue-ribbon committee -- formed in December 2010 -- which said the changes were necessary because of steadily rising educational costs and a slowdown in student enrollment.
Regarding the school closings, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said, "Nostalgia for the past is a bad foundation if we want to think clearly and build creatively for the future."
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