Pittsburgh Public Schools News

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On Monday, November 28, 2011, Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 will hold Honoring CAPA Legacy: Yeaterday, Today, Tomorrow. This celebration of arts education will feature current students, alumni, and teachers performing music and dance. The performance will focus on the impact of the CAPA experience in their lives. Featuring performances by Travis Malloy, Etta Cox, Billy Porter, and many others. The event will be hosted by radio personaility Lynn Cullen and will take palce in the CAPA Theater at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public.   Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 is located at 111 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh PA 15222.

On October 17 and 18, student volunteers helped to plant nearly 2,000 flower bulbs in an effort to beautify Pittsburgh Arsenal. With the help of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) and the supervision of Arsenal teachers, 35 third-grade students and 13 middle school students planted the bulbs on the school grounds. The bulbs, planted on either side of the school building, will produce crocus flowers early next spring. (more…)

The parking lot of Weil Elementary mostly presents a typical urban landscape: wide strips of concrete, a large expanse of blacktop, a sea of parked cars and stretches of chain-link fence. However, amidst the stark blacks and muted grays of the school’s parking lot lies an oasis of color. Purple geranium blossoms grow beneath the fruited branches of a crabapple tree. Tall, feathery grasses, a gingko tree, pale lamb’s ear and glossy boxwood shrubs line a curved mulch path. A grassy hill rests behind a bed of pink rose bushes and a red-leafed ninebark shrub. (more…)

Pittsburgh Public Schools for the 2012-13 school year will be a much leaner and focused organization based on the Board’s approval tonight of the District Realignment Plan.  Focused on continuing its progress in student achievement with far fewer resources, the District Realignment Plan addresses the District’s under-enrolled classrooms that result in unnecessary costs to taxpayers.  Approval of this plan means the District will move forward with the three strategies of the plan: School Closings, Feeder Pattern Changes, and Adjustments to the Educational Delivery Model. The District Realignment Plan is an integral part of the District 2012 Preliminary Budget.

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Pittsburgh Oliver vs. Moniteau – AA

Friday, November 25, 2011 – 7 p.m.
Cupples Stadium
Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh USO vs. State College –  AAAA

Saturday, November 26, 2011 – 12 p.m.
Mansion Park Stadium
Altoona, PA

All PIAA Tickets are $6 at the gate

New Pittsburgh Courier

November 16, 2011

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

November 17, 2011

Pittsburgh Post Gazette

November 17, 2011

Pittsburgh City Paper

November 14, 2011