[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Our diocese is going to be the first in Michigan to have its own school district.”

If you mean “consolidation”, I’m afraid that only delays the end of the school. That is, unless, they institute a funding program similar to that of Wichita, Kansas. But that kind of plan takes guts and must bishops don’t have guts these days.

[grellis]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the end of the school." If you mean school closures, that has been done. Two schools in the diocese were closed, last year, that should have been closed years ago (one was a K-8 and had only 93 students total). The remainder of the schools are in pretty good shape, when you take into account that this is Michigan and families are leaving the state in teeming hordes.

A few of the remaining schools have difficulty in securing funding from parishoners; an equal number of schools are able to raise remarkable funding from parishoners. The parish-raised funds will now be distributed among the district schools. I know exactly how socialist that sounds, but this is all within one diocese--the parishes already share funding in a number of other areas.