{"id":11344,"date":"2009-02-19T17:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_roman_catholic_schools_trying_to_survive\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T17:28:05","slug":"ap_roman_catholic_schools_trying_to_survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11344","title":{"rendered":"AP: Roman Catholic schools trying to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland is considered the cradle of Roman Catholic education in America, but if that heritage is to endure, decisive action must be taken soon to address falling enrollment at Baltimore&#8217;s parochial schools, the archbishop said.<\/p>\n<p>For a decade, leaders have prayed the situation would turn around, Archbishop Edwin F. O&#8217;Brien said. But this academic year, enrollment at archdiocese schools is down 5%, or approximately 1,200 students, according to the archdiocese. That&#8217;s the equivalent of four full schools and twice the average decline of the previous five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To punt any further would be to lose the school system completely,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;It&#8217;s obvious that some action has to be taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-02-18-catholic-schools_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland is considered the cradle of Roman Catholic education in America, but if that heritage is to endure, decisive action must be taken soon to address falling enrollment at Baltimore&#8217;s parochial schools, the archbishop said. For a decade, leaders have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11344\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,111,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}