{"id":257215,"date":"2026-08-01T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257215\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:10:07","slug":"school-district-of-philadelphia-offers-free-gear-immunizations-at-back-to-school-bus-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257215\/","title":{"rendered":"School District of Philadelphia offers free gear, immunizations at Back-To-School Bus Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School District of Philadelphia is gearing up for the return to class with its sixth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/ringthebell\/#bustour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Back-To-School Bus Tour.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bus tour offers everything students and families need to have and know before summer break ends.<\/p>\n<p>Families can get free backpacks, school supplies, immunizations and student registration assistance.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be information available on schools, programs, sports, arts and clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/ringthebell\/#bustour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tour stops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Aug. 3: MLK High School, 6100 Stenton AvenueMonday, Aug. 7: Penrose School, 2515 S. 78th StreetTuesday, Aug. 11: Marcus Foster Memorial Stadium,1627 West Hunting Park AvenueSaturday, Aug. 15: Roosevelt Mall, 2329 Cottman Avenue<\/p>\n<p>All events run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/ringthebell\/#bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first day of school for Philadelphia<\/a> students is Monday, Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unable to attend any of the bus tours to get your free supplies, many retailers are offering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/back-to-school-shopping-deals-giveaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">back-to-school deals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The School District of Philadelphia is gearing up for the return to class with its sixth annual Back-To-School&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44072,61,83,69,71,70,1998],"class_list":["post-257215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-back-to-school","tag-economy","tag-money","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}