{"id":266624,"date":"2026-08-17T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266624\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:54:07","slug":"reading-students-gather-for-annual-back-to-school-supply-event-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266624\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading students gather for annual back to school supply event | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; It&#8217;s the time of year many students dread &#8211; back to school season.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s coming up quicker than they might like.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there&#8217;s no shortage of school supply giveaways to make sure students are prepped for the new year.<\/p>\n<p>State Representative Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz hosted one Sunday, but it wasn&#8217;t just for the kids.<\/p>\n<p>They made sure teachers also got what they needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without them, right, our kids\u2019 education is in their hands, and we wanted to make sure we also take care of our teachers,&#8221; Cepeda-Freytiz said.<\/p>\n<p>There were also state resources there for families to connect with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; It&#8217;s the time of year many students dread &#8211; back to school season. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44072,733,112484,227,18691,4366,5630,75878,112485,28,5178,5172,22581,5634,5169,90702,41841,112483,90703,112486,5166,736,128,130,129,60355,112461,112482,3315,3316],"class_list":["post-266624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-back-to-school","tag-community-event","tag-democratic-party-members-of-the-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","tag-education","tag-giveaway","tag-government-of-pennsylvania","tag-johanny-cepeda-freytiz","tag-members-of-the-pennsylvania-general-assembly","tag-members-of-the-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-democratic-party","tag-pennsylvania-democrats","tag-pennsylvania-general-assembly","tag-pennsylvania-house-of-representatives","tag-pennsylvania-politicians","tag-people-from-berks-county","tag-people-from-pennsylvania","tag-people-from-reading","tag-politicians-from-berks-county","tag-politicians-from-reading","tag-politics-of-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-school-supplies","tag-state-resources","tag-state-university-of-new-york-at-new-paltz-people","tag-students","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266624","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=266624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}