The Pittsburgh Public Schools board voted on a new start date Wednesday. The board heard from more than 100 students, parents and staff this week. A majority urged the district to be more transparent in communication.
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Floor placements indicating social distancing in front of student lockers are seen March 26 at Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Lincoln PreK-5 Elementary School.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools will use federal dollars to purchase new technology, air purifiers and other supplies to update the district in myriad ways, leaders said at a news conference Friday.
District leaders outlined their plans for the covid-19 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds last week, while also announcing their intentions to reopen all school buildings for full-time, in-person instruction, five days a week.
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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.
Pittsburgh Public Schools reduced its daily transportation shortage by nearly 1,000 seats, district officials said Friday, ahead of thousands of students scheduled to return to buildings Monday. The district will welcome back more than 10,000 students Monday as part of its phased hybrid learning plan. More than 4,000 students returned
A student approaches an arriving school bus in this 2018 photo.
As of Monday, all Pittsburgh Public Schools students will have an opportunity to attend in-person classes after schools shuttered 13 months ago. Though, with the district currently experiencing a bus driver shortage, some of them might not have a way to get there.
It’s unclear where and when the breakdown happened. Administrators have said the shortage has been an issue for years. The district surveyed families as recently as last month about their transportation needs ahead of schools reopening. Then March 23 the district said that all students could return May 3.