{"id":6041,"date":"2025-05-13T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/msl\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:41:12","slug":"mps-run-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/2025\/05\/13\/mps-run-back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"MPS Run Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Celebrate the start of the 2025-26 school year with Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Recreation!<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Join us at the 18th annual MPS Run Back to School for this 5K race\/1.5-mile walk through Washington Park.\u00a0Sign up today to earn up to $1,000 in grant funds to support wellness, recreation, and sports needs at your school!<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Event Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Start &amp; Finish Line: MPS Central Services building<\/li>\n<li>Cost: $5 for youth\/$15 for adults<\/li>\n<li>Fee includes an event t-shirt and race bag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a title=\"https:\/\/track.spe.schoolmessenger.com\/f\/a\/J8zJ2xHjZr1fpuNV0o7aKw~~\/AAAAARA~\/DaA4HbVBl8jr_Tk7IHf6iclxb3Yfhqfepnr9Vm9tRTg7-vXeZQQbCNhsX_ykAX-WRs4lhSH_tgNI04bSbuUiQP7yG-ByTyVM2SjTlmOZorGIJM0ccvvX_9AVeeM8T9X5_kjj5Vi4maCwsgeax5d4jGNkcj_CC6fAApjYiw1M0Yp5AGHiawAQW63OnFfYrmkG\" href=\"https:\/\/track.spe.schoolmessenger.com\/f\/a\/J8zJ2xHjZr1fpuNV0o7aKw~~\/AAAAARA~\/DaA4HbVBl8jr_Tk7IHf6iclxb3Yfhqfepnr9Vm9tRTg7-vXeZQQbCNhsX_ykAX-WRs4lhSH_tgNI04bSbuUiQP7yG-ByTyVM2SjTlmOZorGIJM0ccvvX_9AVeeM8T9X5_kjj5Vi4maCwsgeax5d4jGNkcj_CC6fAApjYiw1M0Yp5AGHiawAQW63OnFfYrmkG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Click here to learn more and register online!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only will you help kick off the 2025-26 school year with hundreds of local MPS supporters, school communities with\u00a0<strong>at least<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>25 registered participants are eligible for a $500 grant<\/strong>\u00a0to support a wellness, recreation, or sports need in their school!<\/p>\n<p>The school with the\u00a0<strong>most registered participants is\u00a0eligible for a $1,000 grant<\/strong>\u00a0to support a wellness, recreation, or sports need in their school! Anyone from the community can join a school team.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, schools have used the Run Back to School grant to purchase new gym and sports equipment, provide new uniforms, or cover youth sports registration fees, among many other uses.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for a school team, make sure you specify your school during the registration process after you add the race to your cart.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you and your school community at the event this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the start of the 2025-26 school year with Milwaukee Public Schools and Milwaukee Recreation! Join us at the 18th annual MPS Run Back to School for this 5K race\/1.5-mile walk through Washington Park.\u00a0Sign up today to earn up to $1,000 in grant funds to support wellness, recreation, and sports needs at your school! General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}