Pittsburgh Public Schools

 The PNC Legacy Project opened its Celebrating Black History Month exhibit on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014. To bring the exhibit to young...

When Thaddeus Morris entered Pittsburgh Perry High School last year as a junior, he learned things were a little different than they were in...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve Pittsburgh Public Schools is in jeopardy because the...

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, starring Idris Elba as former South African President Nelson Mandela, is a lesson to be learned by all ages. As...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - New members of the Pittsburgh public school board have scrapped a plan to bring in teachers under the federal Teach for...

Though the Pittsburgh Public Schools tried to put a rosy face on its “State of the District” press presentation by having it at its...

PITTSBURGH, Pa.—TeenBloc, a coalition of student leaders and organizers in Pittsburgh’s high schools whose purpose is to raise the student voice and create positive...

PPS Superintendent Linda Lane (Courier File Photo) This week, the Pittsburgh Public School District announced that 85 percent of their teachers demonstrated effective performance in the 2012-2013 school year, according to data from individualized Educator Effectiveness Reports. The reports are part of the district’s ongoing Empowering Effective Teachers Plan aimed at putting an effective teacher in front of every student.

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 four principals in the last four years and several administrative changes since it was reopened as a new school in 2011. Now, the school will see one more change. On June 17, Alexander Herring, a former principal from Erie, took the helm at Westinghouse.

'WORK OF ART'--Superintendent Linda Lane stands beside valuable piece of art. (Photo/Pittsburgh Public Schools) PITTSBURGH (AP) — A painting that Pittsburgh Public Schools officials lost for 80 years has brought $750,000 in found money to the cash-strapped school district.