NEW YORK
Staten Island Advance
By Staten Island Advance Editorial
on January 10, 2015
The Archdiocese of New York isn’t exactly known for transparency in the way it runs Catholic schools on Staten Island and elsewhere. Going into 2015, the outlook is typically murky.
It’s uncertain at this point whether the archdiocese is prepared to close up to 20 schools in its system over the next two years based on the outcome of contract negotiations with lay teachers, but the archdiocese is putting that possibility out there.
Say what?
Yes, this could be a sorry prospect less than two years after the Catholic schools on Staten Island were officially declared to be operating on a sound financial footing.
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