Allegheny County To Pay For Remote 'Learning Hubs' Attended By Hundreds of Local Students
Sarah Schneider / 90.5 WESA About 1,000 students – 700 from Pittsburgh Public Schools – have spent the past few months logging into their online classes and completeing their homework in churches, community centers, YMCAs and Boys and Girls Clubs. They've been able to do so thanks to federal CARES Act funding distributed by the county's Department of Human Services to organizations that became "Learning Hubs". That federal funding will run out this month. Because so many families have relied on the service, the department will keep them open in January and take on the cost. DHS w...
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