July 5, 2024 6:30 am

Should Government Hinder Private-School Growth? Wisconsin District Calls It ‘Fiscally Responsible’

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Cheryl Sporie, the chair of the St. Thomas Aquinas Academy board in Marinette, Wis., has offered to pay the local school district full asking price for its vacant Garfield elementary building. But the district refuses to sell to its competition.

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For nearly 150 years, what is now St. Thomas Aquinas Academy has been providing a Catholic education to the residents of Marinette, a small northern Wisconsin city on the shore of Lake Michigan.

About 160 students now attend what board chairwoman Cheryl Sporie describes as a “very small, family-oriented parochial school.”

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For nearly 150 years, what is now St. Thomas Aquinas Academy has been providing a Catholic education to the residents of Marinette, a small northern Wisconsin city on the shore of Lake Michigan.

About 160 students now attend what board chairwoman Cheryl Sporie describes as a “very small, family-oriented parochial school.”