Posts tagged with Pittsburgh Public Schools

Last Updated: Feb. 10, 2017 · 6:21 p.m.

How Pittsburgh Public Schools are using new strategies to reduce suspensions

Pittsburgh Public Schools say its new disciplinary practices have reduced suspensions by 2/3 since 2015

Pittsburgh Public Schools looks to expand a model that makes schools a ‘home away from home’ for families

Pittsburgh Public School board voted 8-1 against a controversial proposal that would have armed its 22 school police officers

Pittsburgh Public Schools police officers say they should be armed. Students and parents disagree.

Which Pittsburgh students go to which schools? Find out on this map.

Pittsburgh Public Schools officers are asking to be armed

The heat is closing Pittsburgh schools early again today

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Why the state and Pittsburgh Public Schools are contesting a charter school system’s plan to consolidate

The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers union is pleased to announce its president and vice president were arrested at a protest

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Black Girls Equity Alliance wants Pittsburgh Public Schools to improve its sexual harassment prevention and response

The group and students plan to speak at a school board hearing Monday.

SisterFriend and Pittsburgh Public Schools are making sure girls have access to free pads and tampons

Pittsburgh Public Schools is spending big on marketing to “change the narrative” around the district

After 19 months and a near-strike, Pittsburgh Public Schools teachers officially have a new contract

What’s in Pittsburgh Public Schools’ new teacher contract?

Smithfield Street in Downtown Pittsburgh in the 1970s.

Court orders, padlocks and backlash: Remembering the 1975 teacher strike in Pittsburgh

“It was tense,” one picket captain remembers. “It was also bitterly cold.”

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Teachers have issued a 96-hour strike warning to Pittsburgh Public Schools

If no agreement is reached, teachers will strike Friday — for the first time in 43 years.

Negotiations will continue this week between Pittsburgh public school teachers and officials

Pittsburgh teachers prepare for a possible teacher strike

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Pittsburgh teachers have voted to authorize a strike amid stalled contract talks

Here’s how they got to this point — flirting with the first citywide teacher strike in 4 decades.