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Catholic school students in Worcester will be required to dress, “conduct themselves,” and use pronouns and bathrooms consistent with their sex assigned at birth, regardless of their gender identity, under a new policy announced Tuesday.

The tuition reduction is part of its strategic plan called BluePrint125, which lays out the way the school will develop over the next five years.

WORCESTER – Home schooling was up and public school enrollment was down this school year in the city, new school-attending children data released by the state shows, giving a glimpse into how families responded to the pandemic. The annual report, which tallies how many school-age children are in a town or city and where they are receiving their education, also recorded a steep drop in private and parochial students since 2019-20, largely due to the closing of two parish schools and the merge...

Arlington Catholic High School creates program to bridge the gap for public school eighth-graders who fell behind due to COVID Updated 5:33 AM; They’re in-between. The program, which the school is referring to as a bridge program, was created out of need due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of students in Catholic and private schools in Massachusetts have been in-person learning since September, while some public school students have yet to step foot back in a classroom in more than a ...

‘Kids are absolutely fired up’ to get back to in-person learning, Gov. Charlie Baker says while touring St. Mary’s in Lynn, adding that children are willing to wear masks, social distance Updated Mar 12, 2021; As the state begins requiring schools to get back to in-person learning, Gov. Charlie Baker toured a Catholic school that has been in-person learning since the fall. “Kids are absolutely fired up about the possibility and the opportunity to be in-person,” Baker said. “And the...

WORCESTER – With the city still in the teeth of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Worcester’s Central Catholic schools will extend its remote learning break another two weeks, according to the system’s superintendent. St. Peter Central Catholic Elementary School and St. Paul Diocesan Jr/Sr. High School, which spent most of this school year doing in-person education unlike surrounding public schools, had already moved to fully remote learning three weeks ago. While that earlier ...

Catholic schools in Worcester to make temporary switch to remote learning WORCESTER – Starting next Monday, several Catholic schools in the region, which were among the few schools attempting full-time in-person learning this semester, will make a temporary move to remote learning, the system’s superintendent said. David Perda said the roughly two-week break from in-person classes was originally intended to apply to the two Worcester central Catholic schools: St. Paul Diocesan Jr./Sr. High ...