{"id":99206,"date":"2026-01-28T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99206\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:40:06","slug":"philly-public-schools-to-reopen-thursday-following-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99206\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly public schools to reopen Thursday following snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Tomczuk<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia public schools will fully reopen Thursday, following a three-day cancellation of in-person classes in response to the winter storm that hit the region on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Students will not be marked late and may receive an excused absence if they present a note from a parent or guardian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">School District of Philadelphia<\/a> representatives said. Teachers and other staff will also have lateness excused.<\/p>\n<p>District officials warned families that rely on yellow buses or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.septa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SEPTA<\/a> of possible delays. All after-school programming, including sports, will proceed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aopcatholicschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Archdiocese of Philadelphia high schools<\/a> in the city will also reopen Thursday; however, some parochial elementary schools will remain closed for in-person instruction on a case-by-case basis due to \u201ctransportation difficulty in their neighborhoods,&#8221; according to the archdiocese.\u00a0 Parents will be directly notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jack Tomczuk Philadelphia public schools will fully reopen Thursday, following a three-day cancellation of in-person classes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,48434,20316,16381],"class_list":["post-99206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philly-school","tag-public-school","tag-school-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99206","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=99206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}