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School for Deaf purchases Lourdesmont for $2.4 million - News - The Times-Tribune
The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf has purchased the Lourdesmont school campus for $2.4 million.
The purchase of the 100-acre property on Venard Road shows "we're here to stay," Superintendent Donald Rhoten said Monday. "We're putting our money where our mouth is."
The state gave the private deaf school near Pittsburgh operation of the Scranton State School for the Deaf last year. In its first year of operation of the Scranton school, WPSD has leased the state-owned campus on North Washington Avenue, and renamed the school the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Children.
A bill that has been approved by the state Senate and is awaiting approval in the House would sell the 10-acre Green Ridge property to Marywood University for $500,000, meaning the deaf school needed to find a new home.
Still unclear is where Lourdesmont, a school for troubled youth, will relocate. Officials from the school could not be reached for comment Monday. Lourdesmont is operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and had about 60 students on its campus and another 20 students in school-based programs.
Lourdesmont must vacate the property by Friday, Mr. Rhoten said. Five or six deaf school students will live in the school's former convent for the next school year. After renovations to the Lourdesmont campus, the school's preschool through eighth-grade program will move from Green Ridge at the end of the next school year.
The high school program is being moved to the WPSD's Pittsburgh campus.
The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf has purchased the Lourdesmont school campus for $2.4 million.
The purchase of the 100-acre property on Venard Road shows "we're here to stay," Superintendent Donald Rhoten said Monday. "We're putting our money where our mouth is."
The state gave the private deaf school near Pittsburgh operation of the Scranton State School for the Deaf last year. In its first year of operation of the Scranton school, WPSD has leased the state-owned campus on North Washington Avenue, and renamed the school the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Children.
A bill that has been approved by the state Senate and is awaiting approval in the House would sell the 10-acre Green Ridge property to Marywood University for $500,000, meaning the deaf school needed to find a new home.
Still unclear is where Lourdesmont, a school for troubled youth, will relocate. Officials from the school could not be reached for comment Monday. Lourdesmont is operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and had about 60 students on its campus and another 20 students in school-based programs.
Lourdesmont must vacate the property by Friday, Mr. Rhoten said. Five or six deaf school students will live in the school's former convent for the next school year. After renovations to the Lourdesmont campus, the school's preschool through eighth-grade program will move from Green Ridge at the end of the next school year.
The high school program is being moved to the WPSD's Pittsburgh campus.