Inquirer poses serious questions surrounding St. Laurentius School Appeal

So the Archdiocese was in cahoots with the PSD? I'm not surprised at any level of corruption in this city anymore, but still. Wow.

*sigh*

This is like watching Titanic.

Except the children are not first.

Makes me want to hurl.

And about St. Anne's"

'The Rev. Edward Brady, pastor of St. Anne's, said recently that while talk about charters has been spurred by the commission's recommendations, he had no knowledge of one being proposed in his former parish school.

"Nothing has come our way," Brady said. "Nothing has come across my desk."

I don't believe that. Not for one second.

Yeah, with the overlap of private profit, public funding and political decision making....nobody could've seen the charter school application process becoming a corrupted mess, nobody at all.

Kenny Gamble went from cutting disco records to running 2 charters that are fueled off SDP funding. I call that Gamble-ing with kids' educations.

Geez, we're used to getting screwed by the city; but, now the Catholic Church!

Oh, I think the Church has been putting the screws to the flock for centuries.

"According to the application for the proposed Philadelphia Polytechnic Charter, members of the founding coalition include Vincent J. Fenerty Jr., executive director of the Parking Authority; State Rep. John Taylor (R., Phila.); State Rep. William Keller, (D., Phila); and Robert DeMento, a marketing executive."

The same John Taylor who attended and addressed the crowd at the "support St. Laurentius rally/march?"

If you're speculating that there were schemes to convert St Anne's school to a charter before the ArchD closed it, I think only God will ever disclose the answer to that. My feeling is no. But this is Philadelphia, where any thing bizarro can happen, usually does.

I haven't seen anything official yet but I just heard some good news.....

Is it true? There is an article listing on philly.com that says Saint Laurentis and Holy Trinity will remain open but the link goes to a story just about Holy Trinity.

"The Rev. Francis A. Gwiazda, pastor of St. Laurentius, said he received a phone call around 12:30 p.m. today informing him that his school had been spared."

http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120216_Bucks_Holy_Trinity_Elementary_says_it_wont_close.html

Woo Hoo ! ! ! This is such great news, I'm elated !

Wow, on such a dreary day this great news!

The article says nothing about St. Laurentius. After searching other media outlets, Fox 29 says Holy Trinity and 3 other elementary schools have won their appeals.

Yes, it does. The quote I posted came from that article. Perhaps the article was being updated when you read it, but it says it now (and said it when I posted it)

What awesome news! Yay!!!!!