Stephanie Strasburg | Tribune-Review
Wilkinsburg area school students climb the stairs at Westinghouse Academy in Homewood during a tour of the school on Friday, April 1, 2016. The students went through a day in the school ahead of their transfer there the f0llowing year.
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The school boards for Pittsburgh Public Schools and Wilkinsburg School District will hold a joint board meeting Tuesday to discuss possible renewal of a 5-year-old partnership that allows Wilkinsburg students to take advantage of several PPS programs.
Officials from both districts gathered for a virtual news conference last week, touting the success of the program thus far. Ed Donovan, president of the Wilkinsburg School Board, said the grade point averages of participants from Wilkinsburg have risen almost full point, on average.