The boosters trying desperately to keep Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School alive will have to keep the faith for at least one more week.
Hard as it is to believe, the archdiocese is delaying this morning’s expected ruling on their appeal of the Blue Ribbon Commission’s recommendation that they be shut down.
Raising $5 million apparently is not enough to sway Archbishop Charles Chaput’s mind. At least not yet. He wants another week to mull over the fate of four high schools – including Bonner-Prendie on the list. One of the reasons given is that he wants to go over some new financial data.
The rest of the elementary schools are still expected to get word on their fate this morning.
There was juibilation yesterday at St. Francis de Sales in Aston. They learned their appeal had been granted. They will remain open at their current Aston site. That means St. Thomas the Apostle also will remain open in Glen Mills.
In the meantime, the appeal filed by St. John Chrysostom in Wallingford also was granted. It was originally supposed to merge with Nativity BVM at the Media location. Instead the two schools will still merge, but at the Wallingford site.
Still up in the air is the fate of the other Delco grade schools, including St. Cyril’s in East Lansdowne, which also had appealed its fate.
I will be hosting a live chat on the rulings on the Delco Catholic schools after the archdiocese holds its press update at 10:30. You can follow along here, and take part in the chat on Twitter by using the hashtag #delcocatholic.
Talk to you then.
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