{"id":99626,"date":"2026-01-29T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99626\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:56:14","slug":"philly-public-catholic-schools-will-be-virtual-again-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99626\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly public, Catholic schools will be virtual again on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"chocolat-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251001-002858-280-dsc_1634.jpg\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251001-002858-280-dsc_1634.jpg\" alt=\"The School District of Philadelphia has released its long-awaited facilities plan.\" id=\"photo_70289\" class=\"content-photo\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe School District of Philadelphia has released its long-awaited facilities plan.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMELISSA MITMAN \/ METRO FILE\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tPosted<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tTuesday,<br \/>\n\t\t\tJanuary 27, 2026<br \/>\n\t\t\t4:46 pm<\/p>\n<p>By Jack Tomczuk<\/p>\n<p>Public and Catholic schools in Philadelphia will remain closed for in-person classes Wednesday, officials announced Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">School District of Philadelphia<\/a> said learning will continue virtually, with all afterschool athletics and activities canceled. Catholic elementary and high schools within city limits will operate on a \u201cFlexible Instruction Day,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopcatholicschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Archdiocese of Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>School buildings have been shuttered since <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/philly-snow-emergency,125016?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a winter storm<\/a> dumped more than 9 inches of snow and ice on the region Sunday. Bitterly cold temperatures have followed and are forecast to remain in the area for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPhilly schools,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Catholic schools,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t virtual school\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The School District of Philadelphia has released its long-awaited facilities plan. MELISSA MITMAN \/ METRO FILE Posted Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35589,69,71,70,24003,48615],"class_list":["post-99626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-catholic-schools","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philly-schools","tag-virtual-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99626","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=99626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}