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Students arrive at Westinghouse Academy for the first day of school in 2016, the first year of the Wilkinsburg partnership.
As Pittsburgh Public Schools and Wilkinsburg s school district decide whether to continue a years-long partnership, there is evidence that it is helping students. In the six years that Wilkinsburg students have attended Pittsburgh Public Schools, they ve collectively improved grade point averages by a full point, according to Ed Donovan, the Wilkinsburg school board president.
Donovan told the Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg boards during a joint meeting Tuesday that the shrinking eastern suburban district couldn’t offer students what they now have access to.