{"id":99543,"date":"2026-01-29T07:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:47:10","slug":"allentown-school-district-shifts-to-virtual-learning-for-remainder-of-week-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99543\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown School District shifts to virtual learning for remainder of week | Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0The Allentown School District announced Wednesday that it will shift to virtual learning for the remainder of the week, citing unsafe road and sidewalk conditions throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>District officials shared the update on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllentownSchoolDistrict\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, noting that the safety of students, families, and staff remains the top priority following recent winter weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operating virtually allows additional time for improvement and for transportation routes to be fully assessed before resuming in-person instruction,&#8221; the district said.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers will use Zoom for Virtual Learning Day instruction and will follow their regular daily schedules, the district said. Additional information and assignments will also be posted in Google Classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The district advises students and families to visit the Virtual Instruction Days page on its website for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownsd.org\/families-and-students\/inclement-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more information<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0The Allentown School District announced Wednesday that it will shift to virtual learning for the remainder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,233],"class_list":["post-99543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99543","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=99543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}