Jillian Forstadt
Education ReporterJillian Forstadt is an education reporter at 90.5 WESA. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she covered affordable housing, homelessness and rural health care at WSKG Public Radio in Binghamton, New York. Her reporting has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
She can be reached at jforstadt@wesa.fm.
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At a budget workshop Monday, district chief financial officer Ron Joseph said the district is at risk of not receiving roughly $15.3 million in promised pandemic aid. -
Pittsburgh mayoral candidates will share their platforms directly with high school students over the next few weeks in a series of youth-led forums leading up to May’s primary election. -
Administrators’ decision followed concerns from parents, teachers, and even Pittsburgh City Council, about a lack of data on the repercussions of the school closures. -
Once that process is complete, board members will be able to cast their votes to reshape the district’s footprint, potentially as soon as this summer. -
U.S. Rep. Summer Lee told WESA this week that it will be difficult for the department to function without the more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education workers placed on administrative leave. -
Superintendent Wayne Walters told board members Wednesday that the district needs more trained reading specialists to move the needle on third-grade reading scores. -
They’re endorsed by Black Women for a Better Education, which has successfully elected several candidates to the school board in the last few years. -
WESA went to the PPS Student Voice conference to ask students what they think about the district's proposed changes, as well as their hopes for the district’s future. -
Kristina Moon, a senior attorney at the Education Law Center, said the changes violate state and federal civil rights protections for transgender students. -
Sala Udin reflects on his years of public service and career of activism.
