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Nearly three years ago, the Pittsburgh Technical College in Oakdale transitioned to nonprofit status. It hired Alicia Harvey-Smith to transform the school to be a pipeline for middle-skills jobs. She was formally inaugurated Friday. She helped shift the focus of the two-year programs to respond to the needs of the area.
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All of the commonwealth’s education professionals who wanted a COVID-19 vaccine are now inoculated, Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday.Officials with the…
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Pittsburgh Public Schools will begin phasing its more than 20,000 students back into the classroom next month, after the coronavirus shuttered school…
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On today's program: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are partnering to create a center to combat extremist hate; learning hubs…
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The state Department of Education told state legislators at a budget hearing Monday that it is working to help school districts address their…
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On today's program: We catch up with three Pittsburgh-area superintendents we spoke with in August about how their districts have managed the pandemic;…
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When Ashley Dawson was in first grade, she was one of only a few Black students at Walnut Street Elementary in Darby.But in fifth grade, her teacher,…
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On today's program: A professor with the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research explains what’s promising and what’s left to learn about…
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On Wednesday, Nov. 18, Superintendent William Harner roved Quakertown Senior High School looking for trouble.He wasn’t looking for typical teenage trouble…
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With coronavirus running rampant, a suburban Philadelphia county said Wednesday that it will consider ordering schools to pause in-person instruction for…