Parents fight Sacred Heart school closure
Photo credit: Newsday/Danielle Finkelstein | Susan Carroll, center, with husband Jim, son John, daughter Patricia, left, and Clare, attended Sacred Heart Catholic Grammar School as a child, and sent her children to the school as well. (December 30, 2011)
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Susan Carroll loved Sacred Heart Catholic grammar school in North Merrick so much as a girl in the 1960s and '70s that when she became a mom, she sent her four children there. The planned closure of the school "is like a death in the family," she said.
The Diocese of Rockville Centre said its decision to shut Sacred Heart and five other K-8 schools on Long Island is "painful to all" but a...
