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Hallahan HS is closed, but supporters have plans for a new school. Legal battles swirl.

Officials are expected to announce Monday the forthcoming “Center City Girls’ Academy” to take Hallahan’s spiritual place in the city’s educational landscape, if not its actual name.

Students from John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School follow tradition by jumping in the Swann Memorial Fountain on the last day of school in Philadelphia earlier this month.
Students from John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School follow tradition by jumping in the Swann Memorial Fountain on the last day of school in Philadelphia earlier this month.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer