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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced earlier this week all schools are set to open this September. Over the last few months, the Office of Catholic Education worked with various partners to develop a safe plan to reopen the parish and regional elementary and secondary schools within the Archdiocese.....

Archdiocese of Philadelphia: Talking points on why we are full time in person and the high school is hybrid. TY! God bless, Mr. "D". We feel that the CSO Plan that we developed will provide a safe learning environment for our students and teachers. Face to face instruction is recommended by many health officials, governmental agencies and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Unlike the Secondary/high schools, we can implement effective Cohorting of 25 students or less, the high schools’ cohorts because of the complexity of the curriculum and course work makes this type of cohorting impossible. Our younger students are unable to stay at home without supervision, where many high school children can attend virtual learning without a parent being in the home. In person instruction, provides a safer physical environment for some younger children in stressed situations. The majority of the feedback from our parents was supportive of in-person learning. If a parent is uncomfortable sending their child to in-person learning, then they can select the Individual Learning Option.

Super News! We just hired new gym teacher for St Mike's!!! We have a new a gym teacher for St. Mike's! Sandy Hart. She comes to us with a wealth of many years gym experience in Catholic Schools. She lives in the area. Ms Hart also coaches at Conwell Egan and referees CYO. We will be keeping Thursday / Friday as our gym days. Her other days will be at Our Lady of Grace. God's light, Mr. "D". --

Super news! We won the grant for our PreK $15,000.00 to upgrade our PreK program for Keystone STARS.  I want thank Amy Stroup and Karen Arocho for their assistance writing the grant with me.  God's joy, Mr. "D'.

Awesome News! SMA School just received 49 brand new Chromebooks worth $20,000.00, just In time for our students' use for the new school year! God's joy, Mr. "D".

This week the Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot exclude religious schools from funding made available to other private schools. This ruling will help our schools hurt by COVID-19, as well as helping out underserved communities seeking Catholic education as an alternative to failing public schools.

This ruling mandates states must allow the inclusion of Catholic schools in programs for scholarships and other aid that is available to other, non-sectarian private schools. Saint Michael the Archangel School sees this as a huge victory!