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Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School Students Stage Walkout Friday After Announcement Of School's Closure

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Students at John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School staged a walkout Friday. The students protested the announcement that their school in Center City will close at the end of the school year.

After walking out at 10 a.m., the protesters planned to walk across the Parkway, to the archdiocese headquarters.

Organizers invited students learning remotely to join them.

Hallahan was the first all-girls Catholic diocesan high school in the United States.

The school opened in 1911.

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