In today’s Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the board and staff of A+ Schools urge the administration and board of Pittsburgh Public Schools and the leadership and membership of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers to resolve the issues related to a teachers’ contract – in a way that avoids a strike and ensures that educating our children progresses without interruption.  We urge those parties involved to resolve this contract negotiation positively and keep children as the priority.

View the entire opinion piece at http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07332/837212-109.stm.

Changes are rapidly being made to our school system that will impact Pittsburgh for the rest of time. And we, the public, want to have a voice in those changes. After all, it’s our children’s futures that will be impacted. So we want to make sure that when reform happens, we know about it, we approve of it, and we are a part of it.

We are united to make a difference in our communities.

We invite you to join us.

Schenley is Just the tip of the High School Reform iceberg….

• · ALL High Schools will be “specialty themed” schools
  –> no school will stay the way it is
• Four 6-12 schools are in the works
  –> Frick and other middle schools will close and their students will be housed with 15-19 year old high schoolers
• Public Money will refurbish already functioning schools
  –> Only the massive redistribution of students throughout the district requires this spending on infrastructure not students
• Successful, integrated, functioning schools will be dismantled
  –> Many parents and students see parts of this plan as Re-segregation

What we want….

• · Slow down!!
  –> Implementation of the radical High School Reform plan cannot move forward without a public process
• · PROVE IT!!
  –> Provide documentation and independent verification of all studies, reports, and research supporting these radical transformations of the Pittsburgh Public School System
• · Get Input!!
  –> Create a forum for public discussion and input on these proposals
• · Fiscal Responsibility!!
  –> No spending public money on any part of a radical plan without significant public buy-in on the specific details of the plan

RALLY! November 27, 5:00 p.m.
Board of Education Building
341 S. Bellefield Ave, Oakland

It’s Not Just About Schenley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!