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2012-05-19 00:32:33
Angelo Armenti Jr. defended himself against what he called the "false allegations."
2012-05-19 00:05:12
Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent Linda Lane announced that she is backing off a plan that would have required some high schools
2012-05-18 14:48:56
Winners at included Natalie Nash, a senior at Vincentian High School, and Chareeni Kurukulasuriya, a senior at Pittsburgh Allderdice.
2012-05-18 13:00:33
State education officials released an audit that was critical of some of the school's financial practices.
2012-05-18 00:06:51
Angelo Armenti Jr.'s career as head of California University of Pennsylvania "transformed the campus," but was also plagued by controversies
2012-05-17 22:47:24
The $43.7 million spending plan would add an extra $38 on tax bills for homes assessed at the median $68,000. Total millage would be 23.54.
2012-05-17 22:40:58
The State System of Higher Education Board of Governors was investigating "certain accounts" and potential personnel issues around Armenti.
2012-05-17 13:05:54
Up to 15 percent of American children are chronically absent from school, missing at least one day in 10 and doing long-term harm to their a
2012-05-17 12:05:32
As the criminal trial of the former Penn State assistant nears, the prosecution and defense teams are demanding information from each other.
2012-05-17 07:29:13
The Norwin School District is launching a districtwide character education initiative after more than a year of preparation.
2012-05-17 06:19:42
The board voted 9-0 to approve a $52.7 million proposed budget that requires students to pay to participate in extracurricular activities.
2012-05-17 05:44:59
School board members agree there will be a property tax increase for next school year, but they haven't agreed on how much.
2012-05-17 05:42:39
Four local educators are among the 10 recipients of the prestigious Golden Apple Awards.
2012-05-17 05:30:48
School directors will buy individual iPads for the district's 20 to 25 autistic students.
2012-05-17 05:26:36
Beginning in the fall, every student in the McKeesport Area School District will have an individual plan for success after high school.
2012-05-17 05:23:27
School directors will vote on a preliminary 2012-13 budget tonight that, if passed, would raise the property tax rate by 0.55 mills.
2012-05-17 05:22:17
School directors are poised to vote on a final 2012-13 budget Monday that will raise the property tax rate by a half mill.
2012-05-17 05:20:01
The union representingthe bus drivers and custodial and maintenance workers says the school board wants "to privatize services."
2012-05-17 05:18:51
The Bethel Park school board is expected to formally vote at a special meeting tonight to reject a fact-finder's recommendations in
2012-05-17 05:09:11
It is an effort to recapture funds spent on tuition to cyber-charter schools, Moon Area School District plans to team up with Seneca Valley.
2012-05-17 04:50:14
School directors have approved a $30.7 million preliminary budget for the coming 2012-2013 school year that would hold taxes at 27.54 mills.
2012-05-17 04:49:00
Justin McCord, an honors student, singer, actor and musician, has been selected as a Keystone Shining Star.
2012-05-17 04:48:04
Woodland Hills superintendent Walter Calinger confirmed last week that he has applied for the top job in the Steel Valley School District.
2012-05-17 04:47:05
Officials tried yet again last week to find board-pleasing solutions to the funding gap.
2012-05-16 22:17:27
At least 100 of Shaler Area School District's 400 teachers filled the Barbara J. Duss Conference Room.
2012-05-16 22:16:46
Nina Esposito-Visgitis tonight was elected to serve a second term as president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers.
2012-05-16 16:57:00
Regis L. Stephenson died Tuesday. He was 61. He served 20 years on the borough council and was also a West Mifflin School District director.
2012-05-16 13:04:16
David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the presiden
2012-05-16 13:04:04
Rafael Reif, an electrical engineer who has been the provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the last seven years, has been
2012-05-16 12:45:14
The teacher shoved a man with a gun and pulled off his bandana in a parking lot at Pittsburgh Milliones 6-12 in the Hill District.
2012-05-16 01:45:59
A+ Schools -- along with support from nine other community organizations -- led a rally Tuesday demanding: Keep Pittsburgh's best teachers.
2012-05-15 16:54:04
California University of Pennsylvania spent $428,000 on a "light ribbon" for its new convocation center, a Right-to-Know Law request found.
2012-05-15 15:52:14
William M. Carter Jr. has earned respect for scholarship in constitutional and international human rights law and social justice issues.
2012-05-14 15:23:25
George Kirk taught in the district for 12 years. In his lawsuit, he claims only women advanced professionally in his department.
2012-05-14 13:53:35
Despite a tight budget, the district is putting together an array of summer offerings for more than 3,600 students.
2012-05-14 12:26:08
A United Steelworkers spokesman said the union plans to file for a formal election for the adjuncts with the National Labor Relations Board.
2012-05-14 00:17:57
The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.
2012-05-13 00:58:31
The wound that has been bleeding most profusely is the flow of money for charter school tuition.
2012-05-13 00:31:18
With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts or grad students.
2012-05-13 00:10:39
Natalie Nash designed an iPhone system that allows the visually impaired to navigate through a room full of furniture.
2012-05-12 20:43:32
More than 200 protesters swarmed sidewalks near Pittsburgh Opera's headquarters to protest an event honoring Gov. Tom Corbett.
2012-05-12 14:24:47
Department chairs at California Univ. of Pa. have written to state higher ed leaders, saying fund cuts are eroding academic quality.
2012-05-12 13:04:38
IN seventh-grade English class, sun leaked in through the windows. Horns bleated outside. The assignment was for the arrayed students to ide
2012-05-12 00:10:18
A government lawsuit against EDMC will continue in a slimmed-down form, a judge decided Friday.
2012-05-12 00:03:49
The Bethel Park School District and its teachers union have both rejected a third-party report that aimed to help them reach a contract.
2012-05-11 18:26:37
In a letter obtained today by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, department chairs say "instructional productivity" and sports trump academics.
2012-05-11 16:33:41
Suit claims Pittsburgh-based operator of for-profit post-secondary schools based pay only on number of students recruited
2012-05-11 15:29:03
The report written by an appointee of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board was aimed moving toward a new contract.
2012-05-11 13:20:49
Among the properties CMU plans to buy from the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh is the Cardinal Dearden Center, home to six retired priests.
2012-05-11 13:04:38
American eighth graders have made modest gains in national science testing, with Hispanic and black students narrowing the gap between them
2012-05-11 12:32:21
A consultant cautioned the university in 2005 that the $59 million convocation center would be too big for the local events market.
2012-05-11 12:12:50
The state board has voted to move forward with graduation exams but to require fewer of them.
2012-05-11 11:45:10
James Prince of the North Allegheny School District and Paula Giran of the Norwin School District are finalists for teacher of the year.
2012-05-11 09:36:21
Sto-Rox School District considers a budget that cuts staff, but holds the line on taxes.
2012-05-11 01:13:17
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School CEO Nick Trombetta has announced he is leaving the 11,300-student school he founded, the state's largest.
2012-05-11 00:32:04
Several Central Pennsylvania school districts must turn over some of their student records to the lawyers for Jerry Sandusky.
2012-05-11 00:25:57
West Mifflin Area introduced a preliminary 2012-13 budget Thursday night that would increase the property tax rate by 0.55 mills.
2012-05-11 00:23:52
Woodland Hills superintendent Walter Calinger confirmed Thursday that he has applied for the top job in the Steel Valley School District.
2012-05-10 17:26:54
The Woodland Hills School District administration tried again Wednesday night to find board-pleasing solutions to a $4.5 million funding gap
2012-05-10 15:49:48
Pennsylvania students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in certain subjects before they can graduate from high school.
2012-05-10 05:55:59
At the "Big Box of Books" seminar next Thursday, families will learn how to make the most of reading aloud to children.
2012-05-10 05:41:59
Board members said they are reviewing policies governing student-teacher relationships on social networking sites after parental concerns.
2012-05-10 05:34:53
Beginning in the fall, every student in the district will have an individual plan for success after high school.
2012-05-10 05:16:58
As members of the school board prepared to convene, a group of about 10 students outside held signs that read "save our specials."
2012-05-10 05:09:51
Before the start of each fall semester at the college, someone will call to inquire about housing options.
2012-05-10 05:08:53
Athif Wulandana, Shivum Bharill and Tara Lee come from three very different ethnic backgrounds.
2012-05-10 05:05:01
School directors are weighing a proposed final budget that includes a 2 percent tax increase and reductions in some areas.
2012-05-10 04:57:06
school directors Monday instructed administrators to include funds for full-day kindergarten in the preliminary budget for 2012-13.
2012-05-10 04:56:17
The new president of the Cornell school board is bringing nearly 15 years of experience to the position.
2012-05-09 22:57:57
Shaler Area school board spent much of its session tonight discussing the 2012-13 proposed preliminary budget and revenues and expenditures.
2012-05-09 17:29:03
A Duquesne professor is using a software program to determine if some writings were done by the 16th president.
2012-05-09 16:01:22
Pennsylvania prosecutors are listing 33 grand jury statements by Penn State administrators they say support perjury charges against them.
2012-05-09 15:58:24
The Cathedral of Learning was evacuated again this morning, the sixth evacuation of a Pitt building for a bomb threat in recent weeks.
2012-05-09 15:58:24
A lawsuit that alleged that Kaplan Career Institute fraudulently obtained federal funding has been resolved.
2012-05-09 15:57:38
A new report shows more American children being diagnosed with autism, but life prospects for those children are better than in the past.
2012-05-09 15:56:29
Fifth- and sixth-grade students at Washington Park Intermediate School became the first students in the region to participate.
2012-05-09 15:56:28
Mt. Lebanon school board members resumed talks Monday night about the district's $2 million shortfall in the proposed 2012-13 budget.
2012-05-09 15:56:27
BOSTON -- Every other Monday, right before class ends, Muhammad Zaman, a Boston University biomedical engineering professor, hands out a
2012-05-09 15:56:25
A.W. Beattie Career Center is one of four Pennsylvania schools nominated to compete for the Green Ribbon Schools award.
2012-05-09 15:56:20
University of Pittsburgh officials evacuated the Cathedral of Learning and the Chevron Science Center Wednesday after two bomb threats.
2012-05-09 15:56:05
For some time, John Schmotzer, president of the school board, toyed with the idea of producing a DVD to showcase the district.
2012-05-09 15:56:03
A group of non-tenure-track Duquesne University instructors has begun organizing with the United Steelworkers, the union said Wednesday.
2012-05-09 15:54:41
The North Allegheny School Board on Wednesday appointed Matthew Delp as assistant principal at the intermediate high school.
2012-05-09 15:54:20
A Connellsville High School teacher has been charged with sending explicit images to a student.
2012-05-09 15:53:50
A 24-year-old graduate student who distributed child pornography pleaded guilty Wednesday.
2012-05-09 15:52:34
Pittsburgh Public Schools has posted an opening for a "visionary leader" to become the new principal for the troubled school.
2012-05-09 15:51:31
Another driver's personal truck backed into Carol Eggers, 71, at a Ross garage.
2012-05-09 15:51:25
The state's handling of the plans it is making for the education of the K-8 students in the district was criticized.
2012-05-09 15:51:16
It's a question often posed by architects and urban planners whose focus is Downtown.
2012-05-09 15:51:14
Stung by a cheating scandal involving dozens of Long Island high school students, the SAT and ACT college entrance exams will now require
2012-05-09 15:49:42
CAMDENTON, Mo. -- Students using the computers at Camdenton High School here in central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for
2012-05-09 15:49:34
An audit at California University of Pennsylvania by the State System of Higher Education was triggered by multiple expenditure complaints.
2012-05-09 15:48:46
The district seeks a new principal for the Homewood school that serves students in grades six through 12.
2012-05-09 15:47:14
The Florida 17-year-old killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer became the touchstone for a rally about race and profiling.
2012-05-09 15:43:36
Cutting school budgets is in vogue these days, but Pittsburgh is trying to save money by approaching cost-cutting from a different angle.
2012-05-09 15:43:14
Consolidation is in the works for some parishes and schools in the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese.
2012-05-09 15:39:29
BOSTON -- Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria,
2012-05-09 15:39:28
A psychologist told police in 1998 that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday.
2012-05-09 15:36:26
The university has raised nowhere near its goal of $6 million for the new convocation and events center.
