A Baltimore City councilman has put forward a resolution that asks Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien to make the Catholic schools slated for closure available for conversion to public charter schools. Under the proposal, charter schools would be allowed to pay a nominal fee to occupy buildings that will be left vacant, the Baltimore Sun reports
Parents who do not want to send children to public schools might move to the counties if the Catholic schools are not quickly replaced, said Councilman Nicholas D'Adamo.
"A lot of people are not comfortable with the schools that children would have to go to close to home," said D'Adamo. "That's why they made the sacrifice to send them to Catholic schools."
D'Adamo, a Catholic who attended the long-closed Shrine of the Little Flower School, figures as many as 1,000 families could leave the city after the schools close.
"I think if a charter school opens up in these schools that parents would feel comfortable sending their kids there," D'Adamo said.
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