PITTSBURGH (AP) _ The Pittsburgh Public Schools board has approved a six-year plan to educate the seventh- to 12th-grade students in a poor neighboring school district.
The plans approved Tuesday night by the Wilkinsburg School Board was ratified by the Pittsburgh board on Wednesday.
Wilkinsburg is making the move because of low enrollment and because its middle/high school built in 1910 was last expanded in 1940 and needs repairs.
Under the agreement, Wilkinsburg will send about its middle and high school students _ about 200 in all _ to Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy, which is projecting only 435 Pittsburgh students to be enrolled there in grades six through 12 next fall.
Wilkinsburg will pay $8,000 per student next year and $9,600 to educate each student every year thereafter.
Pittsburgh officials say the deal is revenue neutral, and won’t cost Pittsburgh taxpayers anything.
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