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After a year of remote learning, nearly 4,800 Pittsburgh Public Schools students will return to their classrooms starting Tuesday as part of a phased reopening that aims to get all students back into school buildings by May 3.
“We had a number of students that were doing well in remote instruction, but we had another, larger number of students who were not doing well,” Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet told WESA’s The Confluence. “Based on our analysis of our grades from quarter one and quarter two, we noticed that there were more kids that were failing courses, kids’ grades had dropped, and so the board voted in a resolution to come up with a model to phase kids back in based on need.”
90.5 WESA s The Confluence for Wednesday, January 6, 2021
On today s program: Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators are assessing when to bring some students back to schools; A local environmental advocacy group weighs in on the Environmental Protection Agency’s updated rules for lead and copper and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority’s work on reducing lead in drinking water; and Erie voters with differing political views discuss the results of the general election.
Pittsburgh Public Schools hopes to bring back students, but only if the data says it’s safe
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“It’s important to note this would be a small group of students,” explains WESA’s education reporter Sarah Schneider. These students include those with disabilities and those learning English as a second language. The district brought this cohort back into the classroom briefly last fall, but they returned to remote learning after a week due to rising cases across Allegheny County.