As we approach the new school year, it’s clear this year will be quite different from years past. As neighboring public school districts make virtual starts, schools within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia face losing transportation to and from nonpublic schools and need your help to ensure students attending Catholic schools who rely on busing have adequate transportation. School districts are required to provide transportation to public school students and nonpublic school students, pandemic or not. 

Please contact your state senator and representative, the Governor, and the Secretary of Education. If you are looking to switch to a Catholic school to ensure your child’s education remains uninterrupted, learn more about the reopening plan here.

As you may be well aware, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will be open in a few weeks for full-time, in-person learning. While elementary schools will be open, parents also have the option to continue distance education virtually. Those staying home and learning virtually, however, must be dressed in their uniform and ready to go at the same time as their classmates are at school...

Catholic Schools have been particularly hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Families who choose Catholic education face (like so many of us) financial hardships due to layoffs and reduced work hours. In turn, Catholic schools face reduced enrollment. However, in the last few months, Catholic schools proved their ability to continue to make good on their promise of educating each student. As our current reality under COVID-19 continues, there lies a strong need to save Catholic schools from the havoc COVID-19 created. 

On August 15, we celebrate the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. As Catholics, we believe that once the Virgin Mary completed the course of her earthly life, she was assumed to heaven to live in eternal glory.

Two representatives from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia discussed the plan to reopen all Catholic elementary and secondary schools this September. Sister Maureen Lawrence McDermott, IHM, the Superintendent of Secondary Schools, and Andrew McLaughlin Ed.D., the Secretary for Elementary Education joined Good Day on Fox 29 to detail what to expect.