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Wayne Walters, a longtime school leader and former teacher, will lead the state’s second-largest district Pittsburgh Public Schools until a search to permanently fill the position begins in December.
There’s a lot of money at play in the Pittsburgh Public Schools board races this year, though reporting lapses make it difficult to be certain about just how much. But reports suggest that there have been notable investments by the city’s teachers union to protect the board majority, and a $25,0000 donation to a slate of candidates who could topple it -- a contribution that went unreported until after a filing deadline. The political committee Black Women For A Better Education formed last year in response to what it called the school district’s slow and inadequate move to remote learn...
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 scho...
/ 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 ‘th...
Alex Macfadzean sits in the cockpit Credit: Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press 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 ride...