When Kolbe Academy opens Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, it will be the first religious recovery high school in the nation. The Diocese of Allentown is opening the Hanover Township, Northampton County, in ...

The Allentown Diocese on Thursday announced plans to open a recovery high school for students with drug and alcohol addictions.The school, to be called Kolbe Academy, named after St. Maximilian ...

Brooke Tesche, the diocesan deputy superintendent of secondary and special education, told CNA that she had first discovered recovery schools after working in the public school system.

Students will pay tuition of $15,000 to $16,000, comparable to the diocese's other high schools, according to Tesche. That's also how much a 28-day treatment program can cost families, she said.

Students will return to in-person classes in the Diocese of Allentown when school reopens in late August, and some things will be different. “We are working to make each of our schools as saf… ...

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Allentown will have a virtual learning option when schools reopen this year.The news comes after the diocese last month announced it was planning for in-person ...