Jillian Forstadt

A psychiatric care facility for children and adolescents in Allegheny County is facing five new lawsuits from former patients who claim they were physically and sexually assaulted while staying there.

But while city officials have indicated that students cannot hang around the square unless they are buying and eating food, they have not offered any alternatives for kids downtown.

Researchers warn that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession — a slide predating the pandemic's disruptions in schooling. But they also note that some schools — including several in Western Pennsylvania — are bucking that trend.

Pittsburgh city leaders are teaming up with the workforce development nonprofit Partner4Work to expand their summertime Learn and Earn program into the school year.

District leaders are again deciding whether to close nine school buildings and reconfigure many more — a plan administrators failed to get board support for last fall. PPS board members are slated to take up another vote on the plan next week.

But enrollment in B.O.O.S.T. didn't necessarily result in academic improvement. An independent evaluation of the program WESA obtained through a records request found that, compared to students who did not attend B.O.O.S.T. at all, there was no significant impact on reading or math scores.

Dozens of elementary school students filled the conference room inside Pittsburgh Public Schools' administration building on Tuesday night. Third grader Serenity Brewer came to tell board members not to close her magnet school in Bloomfield, Woolslair PreK-5.

After nearly three years of heated deliberations, Pittsburgh Public Schools will move forward with its sweeping school closure and reconfiguration plan.

The number of students completing teacher preparation programs in Pennsylvania has modestly increased since 2019, although those gains aren't spread equally across the state.

Two in five Allegheny County kids whose parents want to enroll them in summer programs are missing out, according to new data from the national Afterschool Alliance together with Allegheny Partners for Out of School Time (APOST).