PITTSBURGH — The school day was starting, but Arnetta Fuqua decided to let her 7-year-old daughter sleep a bit longer.
It was a sunny-enough Wednesday in April, but Ralilah, a first-grader in Pittsburgh public school, would be studying from home through the end of the week, after school leaders decided to shutter classrooms — not for snow or heat or a global pandemic, but for the arrival of a new kind of marquee sports event: the NFL draft.
