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Herring named Westinghouse principal in effort to help transform Pgh schools
ALEXANDER HERRING The past two years have been a difficult time for Westinghouse 6-12, a restructured Homewood school that spent a brief period as a single-gender academy. The beleaguered school saw...
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Alarm over no textbooks at Perry High School
UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE—Thaddeus Morris with his father, Gregory Morris, and the single textbook he has been issued in his nearly two years at Pittsburgh’s Perry High School. When Thaddeus Morris entered...
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Is the Pittsburgh Promise failing in its promise to Blacks?
Joseph Kennedy Though the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship can pay eligible students from the Pittsburgh Public School District up to $40,000 for in-state college or technical training, its original,...
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Just Sayin’…Kennedy is absolutely right about the Pittsburgh Promise
ULISH CARTER Why does everything have to be a contest? Why can’t we just do the right thing? I’m talking about the Pittsburgh Promise. Joseph Kennedy is absolutely right in his challenge to the...
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Foul play against the Pittsburgh Promise
SALA UDIN A few years ago, there was widespread discussion around Pittsburgh, about whether to lower the academic standards for high school athletes. The advocates of lower standards never argued that...
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The Pittsburgh Promise IS making a difference for African American students
Candi Castleberry-Singleton and Franco Harris We were taken aback by an article that appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier on February 5, 2015 that misrepresented The Pittsburgh Promise. As chairman...
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Public schools in Pittsburgh closed Thursday due to cold
Linda Lane PITTSBURGH (AP) – Public schools in the city of Pittsburgh will be closed Thursday with arctic cold expected to descend on the commonwealth. The Pittsburgh Public School system posted word...
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