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Enrollment for the first-year of Pope John Paul
II Academy is going well, according to the
Archdiocese of Boston. The Catholic school, which
will open in September with five campuses across
Dorchester, will replace the current eight-school,
parish-based system.
Enrollment has climbed to over 70 percent, said
Archdiocese spokesperson Terrence Donilon on
Tuesday.
"Which is phenomenal when you think most
Catholic schools wouldn't even be approaching that
number until the spring," he said. "We saw this in
Brockton, but somehow I have a feeling it's
happening a bit more here."
Aside from overseeing construction on the St.
Margaret School on Columbia Road and planning
for other construction in each of the
five-campus system, the 2010 Initiative team is
also hunting internally and externally for a
regional director for PJPII.
"They've whittled it down to the people that are
most qualified to do this," said Donilon. "Our goal
is to announce in the next couple weeks."
Donilon said it is hoped that offers would be
made to potential principals by the end of March,
and teachers in April. In the Archdiocese's
original "Dorchester/Mattapan Approved School
Plan," introduced in a PowerPoint document in
November 2007, a deadline of January 2008 was given
for choosing a regional director. But other
documents gave the same date as the beginning of
the selection process.
&endash;PETE STIDMAN
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