Catholic schools in Brooklyn, Queens will be closed next week

Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens will shut down their classrooms beginning Monday and prepare to implement remote learning, officials with t🐻he Brooklyn Diocese announced Friday.

“The decision to close schools was made out of an abundance of caution due to the rapidly changing situation surrounding the Coronavirus and after further consultation with representatives of city and state agencies,” the diocese said in a statement.

Brooklyn Diocese Superintendent of Schools Thomas Chadzutko said that buildings will be thoroughly cleaned during the closures and that the Diocese will do its best to accommodate families without hไome internet access.

The move comes a day after the Archdiocese of New York, which operates parochial schools in the other boroughs, announcꩵed they would close their classrooms beginning Monday, too.

Students attending archdiocese-run schools in Manhattan, The Bronx and Staten Island were released at noon today to give teachers and administrators ꦺtime to prep👍are.

Officials reiterated that they had no confirmed cases of student coronavirus in the📖ir schools.

There are roughly 200 Catholic sc🌱hools in the city teaching aroundไ 77,000 kids.