Schools stressed; Parochial focus on inner-city challenged.(NEWS)

From: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | Date: November 25, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Bronislaus B. Kush

There was a lot of boisterous back-slapping when students and parents were told last spring that the 82-year-old St. Mary's Elementary School in Clinton would not close.

The Rev. Tomasz J. Borkowski, the pastor of Our Lady of Jasna Gora Church, which operates the small Catholic school, informed those assembled at a special meeting that St. Mary's would reopen because an emergency fundraising campaign had wiped out a $120,000 budget ...

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