{"id":100448,"date":"2025-07-28T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100448\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:11:12","slug":"philadelphia-families-find-relief-from-back-to-school-shopping-stress-with-help-from-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100448\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia families find relief from back-to-school shopping stress with help from school district"},"content":{"rendered":"

Families find relief from back-to-school shopping with help from Philly school district <\/p>\n

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Families find relief from back-to-school shopping with help from Philly school district<\/p>\n

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Kids across the Philadelphia area got a head start on going back to the classroom with the School District of Philadelphia’s 5th Annual Back-to-School Celebration & Bus Tour<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n

Backpacks, school essentials and socks<\/a>\u00a0were packed on the lawn of the School of the Future in West Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Children and parents were able to stock up on their favorite supplies fresh for the new academic year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n

According to the National Retail Federation, the average family is expected to spend more than $500 on back-to-school supplies<\/a>. For mother of four, Lanaysia Joiner, the help is more than appreciated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s a relief as far as like uniforms, bookbags \u2013 stuff that’s really needed,” Joiner said. “Some families can’t afford it. I’m a single mom [of] four children, so, you know, very appreciative today.”<\/p>\n

It’s a similar sentiment from mom of three, Mimi Gravley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n

“It’s a help, it’s a help. I can focus on one less thing of bookbags because the bookbags don’t last long, so it’s nice to have that already,” Gravley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The megabus will make seven stops across the city of Philadelphia through Aug. 15.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

Alicia Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n

Emmy-award winning Reporter and Anchor Alicia Roberts joined the CBS News Philadelphia team in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families find relief from back-to-school shopping with help from Philly school district Families find relief from back-to-school shopping…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,13915,1448,2830,1311,10774,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-100448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-back-to-school","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114933156315766782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}