Calif. Diocese Launches Plan to Keep Struggling Schools Open

Six Orange County, Calif., Catholic schools that faced closure due to dwindling enrollment and rising deficits will re-open next school year under an ambitious plan that, if successful, could be deployed throughout the 36-school system, says the Los Angeles Times.

A new tuition plan, vigorous marketing, and an associate superintendent charged with supervising finances and development will be deployed in a bid devised by a task force of educators and businesspeople. The six schools, which face a combined $1.5-million shortfall, educate more than 1,000 students, many from low-income immigrant families, in one of the country’s fastest-growing dioceses.

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