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(The Center Square) – Some Pittsburgh residents may feel déjà vu as the city’s public school system considers yet another plan to close buildings and redistribute many of its 20,000 students.
The schools below were built under the sub-district system and taken over by the Board of Public Education in 1911. [1] [2] Some sub-districts gave unique names to each school, while others used numbered schools (e.g. Colfax No. 1). The school board renamed all of the numbered schools in 1912.
On November 23, 2011, the Pittsburgh Board of Education approved a reform plan that would close Langley High School as an active school for the 2012–13 school year. The staff and student body were relocated to the nearby Brashear High School. The district then revealed plans for the Langley building to remain open as a middle school grades 6–8.
Pittsburgh Public Schools is the public school district serving the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and adjacent Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania. As of the 2021–2022 school year, the district operates 54 schools with 4,192 employees (2,070 teachers) and 20,350 students, and has a budget of $668.3 million. [ 3 ]
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City Charter High School, commonly referred to as City High, is a charter high school operating on a year-round schedule. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, the school provides education for students in grades 9 through 12. [1] It was founded in September 2002 by Dr. Richard Wertheimer and Mario Zinga.
School closings, remote learning 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3 As temperatures and snow continue to fall into the evening, more schools in the area have canceled classes on Feb. 4.
Circa the late 1960s the number of school districts was 2,277. The state government had passed laws encouraging these districts to merge with one another, so the figure fell to 669, and then 501, in the 1970s and then in 1981. [1] There are approximately 500 public school districts in Pennsylvania as of 2023.