Taxpayers in Springfield, Massachusetts have paid out $1.3 million to bus Catholic high school students to suburban classrooms.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said he has no regrets about providing transportation for Cathedral High School students after the June 2011 tornado destroyed the Springfield campus. Classes were relocated to a former elementary school in Wilbraham. Sarno said he believed Cathedral would eventually rebuild in Springfield, but that now is in doubt.
" It was the right thing to do," said Sarno about the decision to pay to transport Cathedral students to Wilbraham. " I would do that for anyone after we faced that devastating tornado that hit us. It was the right thing to do."
The Springfield bishop announced a proposal to merge Cathedral and Holyoke Catholic high schools and build a new school at a yet to be determined location.
