The Pittsburgh Promise program that provides scholarships of up to $10,000 for four years to graduates of Pittsburgh Public Schools who meet certain qualifications continues
Back in 2007, Mayor Peduto’s predecessor, along with the Superintendent of Pittsburgh schools and the head of UPMC, worked to put together the Pittsburgh Promise
Begun six years ago with great fanfare and grandiose goals, the Pittsburgh Promise seems to be falling well short of its primary objectives to improve the quality of education and raise high school enrollment at City schools.
There is much rejoicing in the office of the Pittsburgh Promise program as well in the Mayor’s and Superintendent’s office. Several million more dollars have
The Pittsburgh Promise program was launched to great fanfare in 2006 as the panacea for what ails City schools.
While lauding the school district’s improving achievement scores in the 2008-2009 school year, the superintendent studiously avoided a thorough discussion of two troublesome and potentially
Last week was a bounty of good news for boosters of the Pittsburgh Promise. It was announced that $160 million had been raised over the
No, not another event on the scale of the G-20; this time, it is a summit on education. Funded by a $10k grant from the
Now that the Promise program has had a couple of years of operational experience, they have seemingly encountered a problem. Perhaps they have made a
The Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship program, in an abrupt departure from its original plan, announced changes to the amounts available to graduating students who qualify
