Apr 25, 2008 / 02:18 am
A Catholic religious order has announced that it will sell one of its New Hampshire primary schools to a group of parents to ensure continuing support for Catholic education, the Union Leader reports.
Five months ago, the order called Religious of Jesus and Mary told parents that they could no longer support the 90-year-old Villa Augustina school in Goffstown. The closure of the K-8 school was considered almost certain.
However, in the intervening months enterprising parents raised $400,000 for repairs to the school and another $120,000 for its purchase.
Sister Janet Stolba, the U.S. provincial for the Religious of Jesus and Mary, along with the order’s governing council in Rome, approved the sale after parents submitted a five-year plan for the school’s future. News of the order’s general government approving the decision arrived on Monday.