Pittsburgh Public Schools
Issue Summary (Updated January 2009)Pittsburgh Public Schools The Issue: The Pittsburgh Public School system is too expensive, with general fund expenditures of nearly $20,000 per pupil. For these...
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View ArticlePittsburgh Schools Still Not Making the Grade
While waxing ecstatic last month about the Pittsburgh school district’s improving achievement scores in the 2008-2009 school year, the Superintendent studiously avoided a thorough discussion of some...
View ArticlePittsburgh Enrollment Decline Forecast to Continue
An independent consultant hired by Pittsburgh Public Schools to study facility usage recommended closing 16 buildings and reconfiguring another 19 of the District’s 70 facilities. The recommendations...
View ArticleThings Are Not Great in Pittsburgh Promise Land
In late December the Pittsburgh Promise Program secured a corporate grant from BNY Mellon. The $500,000 gift is the Program’s second largest corporate donation, trailing only UPMC’s pledge of $100...
View ArticleGreatSchools Ranking of Schools Flawed and Misleading
GreatSchools, a San Francisco non-profit organization, recently ranked cities according to school performance and city affordability. According to GreatSchools the rankings were done to assist parents...
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