CP Photo: Jared Wickerham Delancey Walton The COVID-19 pandemic upended education for Pittsburgh youth in ways the community is still working to recognize. But while some point to the COVID-19 pandemic as the primary culprit for the district’s challenges, education activists and residents say they’ve seen an educational crisis brewing in Pittsburgh Public Schools for some time. With the impending May 18 primary, candidates running for school board see this moment as a chance to alchemize the educational system to ensure better outcomes for Pittsburgh youth, especially Black students, teachers, and others involved in the district. Twelve candidates will face off for five school board seats districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 a majority of the nine-seat board of Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS). Four board seats have incumben
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Five of the nine Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Directors seats are up for election this year, and education advocates say the outcomes could mean a “sea changing” shift for the district one that could result in a board that is more skeptical of the district’s leadership.
Tracey Reed, one of the challengers seeking a board seat, says the district must be held to higher standards. “What are we doing if we’re not able to get kids up to a place where they can read with proficiency and do numeracy with proficiency?” she asks. “We have to think about outcomes not like ‘this is inevitable’ but ‘this is what’s possible. ”
Alex Macfadzean sits in the cockpit
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British engineers will attempt to regain a motorbike speed record the UK has failed to overtake for 84 years, as designers look to an engine used by the military for added power.
In 1937, English racer Eric Fernihough rode his supercharged Brough Superior motorbike at 169mph to set a new world land speed record for a two-wheel vehicle.
He died the following year attempting to win back his accolade from German competition, and remains the last Briton to hold the motorbike speed record.
A new attempt with a British rider and bike is now being planned to reclaim the record for the UK after 84 years of being bested by German, Italian, and American teams.
British engineer and ex-bike racer Alex Macfadzean, 77, and his team designed the new streamliner bike
Racer turned TV presenter Guy Martin will make the record-breaking attempt in Bolivia next year
Britain last held the motorcycle land-speed record in 1937 after Eric Fernihough broke 169.72mph
But Italy s Piero Taruffi took the title by an extra 3.31mph in the October of 1937 and the title has changed hands amongst Germans, Italians and Americans since