Olson said his administration will present a plan to house both boys and girls in one building, the Bonner school. But he added that officials may consider keeping some same-gender classrooms, all girls or all boys.
The school has also invited students from West Catholic High to come to Bonner-Prendergast, should they be able to save it.
COURTS
Today
Abortion doctor and alleged murderer Kermit Gosnell has a detention hearing in federal magistrate court on charges that he operated a "pill mill" between June 2008 and February 2010. Federal prosecutors said he illegally peddled thousands of oxycodone and Xanax pills.
A federal court trial begins in the case of John Gassew for a series of gunpoint robberies of bars and convenience stores in Northeast Philadelphia in 2007 and 2009. When cops arrested Gassew in October 2009, after he had allegedly stolen almost $5,000 worth of cigarettes from a convenience store in Fox Chase, they found a handgun and a white shirt with slits cut into it that he allegedly had used as a mask during the robbery and had been captured on the convenience store's surveillance video.
Thursday
Admitted fraudster Bonnie Sweeten - who stole more than $1 million from a Bucks County law firm's clients, co-workers and a relative - learns her fate as she is sentenced in federal court. Sweeten could face eight to 10 years in federal prison under advisory guidelines.
Courtney Wilson is scheduled to face a handful of women whom he first met when they were church girls. This time it will be at his preliminary hearing in a Common Pleas courtroom.
