Valley High 10 Commandments monument to find new home
New Kensington, PA
A monument featuring the Ten Commandments that must be removed from the Valley High School (New Kensington, PA) campus as the result of a recent court settlement has found a new home at a former school district property.
The religious monument will soon reside at the former Greenwald Memorial School, according to New Kensington-Arnold School District Superintendent John Pallone.
The building is no longer a public school, after the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg bought the shuttered elementary school for $525,000 last March.
Greenwald, at the corner of Freeport and Elmtree roads in New Kensington, was closed in summer 2014 when the district consolidated schools to save money and better utilize space.
It is now Mary Queen of Apostles Catholic School.
Under an agreement between the district and the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation announced Tuesday, the district agreed to remove the stone monument containing the Commandments by mid-March.
The agreement ended an ongoing federal lawsuit filed in September 2012 by Marie Schaub, who claimed the monument was a strictly religious symbol and was offensive to herself and her daughter, who was a Valley High School student at the time.
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