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Pittsburgh Public Schools to Shift to Remote Learning April 22–24 for NFL Draft

District leaders cite transportation and safety strains from large draft crowds, moving state tests to new windows.

Overview

  • The district will run asynchronous instruction on those days, with students completing assignments online and checking in via homeroom on Schoology between 10 a.m. and noon for attendance.
  • Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams are rescheduled to April 20–21 and April 28–May 4, with makeups from May 4–8.
  • Officials project 500,000–700,000 attendees over the three days, a figure that counts re-entries rather than unique visitors.
  • The NFL said it had no role in the school district’s decision to go remote, according to a league spokesman.
  • Families have voiced mixed reactions to the plan, as the city expands transit service and prepares downtown staging for the draft.