Pittsburgh Public Schools have seen yet another enrollment decline continuing a trend dating back over a decade. The student count for the 2010-11 school year
Central Falls, Rhode Island made national headlines when the school superintendent fired the entire staff at the high school. The principal, teachers and even guidance
A pop quiz as another school year gets underway: what is the student-to-teacher ratio in the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS)? According to the most recent
Pittsburgh has received $40 million from the Gates Foundation to figure out how to define and promote effective teaching. That is more money than many
Student achievement improves, and, as a result, so too does the pay of the principal, the teachers, and other school employees responsible for the
Articles in yesterday’s papers delivered the news that there is a tentative five-year contract between the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
According to a Tribune Review report this morning the Pittsburgh school district needs $44 million dollars in order to receive all of the $40 million
Without stimulus money, "I am quite certain that Pittsburgh, like so many districts across the country, would have had substantial layoffs"-this is what the Pittsburgh
Once again, Pittsburgh’s eleventh graders point to the failure that is the City’s school system. Because these students were unable to improve their scores on
In a recent piece on education funding an analyst noted that "two-thirds of public school employment growth has been teachers (41%) or teacher aides (23%).
