Schools

Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn has temporarily switched to remote instruction for all students after two of them tested positive for COVID19, school administrators wrote in a letter to parents this week.

The Archdiocese of Washington’s Catholic Schools Office hailed an Aug. 7 announcement by a Montgomery County health officer that he has rescinded his previous directives forbidding private and religious schools from opening to in-person instruction at the start of the school year.

The Archdiocese of Washington and its Catholic Schools Office hailed the Aug. 3 emergency order by Maryland’s governor to override a Montgomery County Health Department blanket directive that would have kept nonpublic schools from reopening for in-person instruction through at least Oct. 1.

A new summer learning program in the Archdiocese of Baltimore aims to prevent the educational slide that normally comes during summer vacation, and has been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.