Friday, March 29, 2013
The website is designed to be easier to navigate, and has new tools to help keep parents informed.
Pittsburgh Public Schools this week launched a new website, with an easier-to-use navigation design and more user-friendly features to help keep parents and other informed. School officials said the website was re-designed with families and community members in mind. "As we work toward our goal of becoming a district of first choice, we know we must continually improve the way we communicate with our families and those considering sending their children to the Pittsburgh Public Schools," said Superintendent Linda Lane, in a statement released by the district. "Our hope is that families find our new site a resourceful, easy to navigate one-stop shop for information about the District." One of the site's new features is a tool called …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The district's Board of Directors approved a new contract with Lane, effective through June, 2016.
Linda S. Lane will retain her position as superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools for another three years. The district's Board of Directors this month entered into a new three-year agreement with Lane, effective through June 2016. “As we continue to evolve into a district of first choice for families, I am privileged to have been leading the Pittsburgh Public Schools in such a time of change,” Lane said in a statement released last week. “I am honored to continue to serve the students and families of Pittsburgh, a place I now call home.” Superintendent Lane has elected to keep her compensation at $200,000, effective Jan. 1, 2013, despite earning increases totaling $20,000 authorized by the Board over the past two years. Under the …
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Last week, the board adopted its 2013 budget, but the millage rate won't be set until its Jan. 23 meeting.
The Pittsburgh Board of Public Education adopted the district's $521.8 million general fund budget for 2013 last week, but will wait to set the millage rate until its Jan. 23 meeting. Earlier this month, the district recommended the board set a tax rate that would raise property tax revenue, after 11 years of no increase, to create a reserve fund to cover the cost of real estate appeals. On Dec. 10, Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Stanton Wettick provided an extension to the county’s reassessment timeline and the district’s timeline for setting the millage rate and homestead exemption from gaming revenues. The board is anticipated to vote on the millage and homestead exemption at its Jan. 23 legislative meeting. The 2013 …
Monday, August 13, 2012
The district saw a dip in PSSA scores this year.
For the first time since implementing its "Excellence For All" reform agenda in 2006, Pittsburgh Public Schools saw a district-wide dip in PSSA scores this year. A chart detailing the Adequate Yearly Progress report for each of the district's schools is attached to this article in PDF format. Superintendent Linda Lane released a statement about the results late last week. “We are extremely disappointed and puzzled by these results since the reforms we have put in place have shown promising results for our students over the past several years,” Lane said. “After making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) last year, for the second time in three years, the District is committed to understanding this year’s data in order to get back on our positive…
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Of the 500 positions lost, 190 were teachers and others represented by the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers.
Pittsburgh School Board voted to furlough 280 school employees at its legislative meeting Wednesday evening, affecting Brookline students who attend public school. Among those furloughed Wednesday were 190 teachers and other professionals represented by the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. While the total number of position reductions for the 2012-13 school year is approximately 500, last night's furloughs were minimized through attrition, according to Ebony Pugh, district spokesperson. Like school districts across the country and Commonwealth, Pittsburgh Public Schools continues to reshape the way it delivers education, Pugh explained. In October 2011, the district released a plan that amends its Educational Delivery Model by gaining …
Robert
9:29 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wake up and smell the coffee blt.....they are eliminating teachers jobs in public schools all over the state and increasing the work load for the remaining teachers(with no extra pay of course. The teachers shoud let them know that under no circumstance will they do more than one persons work. All my life i made it knownto my employer when people were laid off that I wouldn't be doing thier work… more ›