{"id":265482,"date":"2026-08-14T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265482\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:48:09","slug":"pittsburgh-public-schools-back-to-school-event-at-acrisure-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265482\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pittsburgh Public Schools&#8217; Back-to-School event at Acrisure Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Public Schools&#8217; 14th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pghschools.org\/about\/back-to-school\/bts-event\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Back-to-School event<\/a> takes place Monday at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The event provides students and families with personal care services and free school supplies to start off the new academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-registered students will receive free haircuts, hairstyles and manicures inside the stadium&#8217;s Great Hall. Appointments are already fully booked.<\/p>\n<p>But families can also drive through Acrisure\u2019s Gold Lot 1A to pick up free school supplies. No registration is required for the drive-through option.<\/p>\n<p>An opening ceremony at 8:45 a.m. will include remarks by PPS Superintendent Wayne Walters and Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O&#8217;Connor. Haircuts and drive-through school supply pickup is from 9 a.m. \u2013 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>PPS\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pghschools.org\/calendar\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first day of school for the 2026-27 school year<\/a> is Aug. 24 for all students except kindergartners. Kindergarten begins Aug. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Schools&#8217; 14th annual Back-to-School event takes place Monday at Acrisure Stadium. The event provides students and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-265482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265482","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=265482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}