In the Maryland suburbs, Montgomery County’s public health chief urged the same shift for private schools, citing a sharp surge in coronavirus cases. As schools began to weigh the idea — a recommendation, not an order — state data in Maryland and Virginia gave a snapshot of several weeks of school-associated covid-19 cases that health officials described as outbreaks. Woodson had an outbreak with five cases and Virginia Academy, a private school in Loudoun County, had one with six, according to data released Friday. ADFitzpatrick lauded the recommendation in Montgomery County to shift private school learning to all-virtual. ADArchdiocese officials said Friday they were studying the recommendation to move private schools to all-remote learning.

Source: Washington Post November 20, 2020 16:55 UTC