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The city school board will consider a 3 percent tax increase next week as it faces a $56 million budget deficit.

Three people recently elected to serve on the Board of Education for Pittsburgh Public Schools and two member who won reelection have been sworn into office. The ceremony was held Dec. 6 for first-time board members Tracey Reed, who represents District 5; Jamie Piotrowski, District 7; and Gene Walker, District

The group Black Women for a Better Education was successful Tuesday night in the Pittsburgh Public Schools board elections. Its endorsed candidates, Tracey Reed and Gene Walker, will represent Districts 5 and 9. Sala Udin was also backed by the group and will begin his second term serving Hill District and East End communities. The board will begin a search for a new superintendent in December after new members are sworn in.

Voters in the southern part of the city will determine a new school board representative next week. But only one candidate has been publicly campaigning. Tracey Reed, who is backed by a new political group, Black Women For A Better Education, won the Democratic primary with nearly 60 percent of votes.

In the only competitive race for the Pittsburgh Public Schools board, a challenger backed by a new PAC takes on an incumbent who says she deserves the position. Veronica Edwards lost the May primary to Gene Walker by 114 votes.