{"id":120751,"date":"2026-02-22T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120751\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:59:25","slug":"philadelphia-area-school-closings-delays-virtual-learning-days-for-monday-feb-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120751\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-area school closings, delays, virtual learning days for Monday, Feb. 23, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/south-jersey-snow-philadelphia-winter-storm-weather-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">major nor&#8217;easter<\/a> taking aim at Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware on Sunday has prompted schools to start announcing closings and virtual learning days for Monday, Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington announced that classes will be held virtually on Monday because the district already used its built-in snow day back on Jan. 26. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia could see 12-18 inches of snow with this storm, and higher amounts are likely in South Jersey, especially along the coast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/disaster-emergency-declared-pennsylvania-dangerous-winter-storm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/nj-state-of-emergency-atlantic-city-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Jersey<\/a> and Delaware have all issued emergency declarations in response to the storm, which is likely to cause whiteout conditions on many major roads.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major nor&#8217;easter taking aim at Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware on Sunday has prompted schools to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,915,28,69,71,70,16381,15765],"class_list":{"0":"post-120751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware","9":"tag-new-jersey","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-school-closures","15":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}