Education Experts Say District Not Listening from the New Pittsburgh Courier
The Community Empowerment Association town hall meeting “Whose Educating Our Black Children: The Culture of Silence,” convened education experts from around the Pittsburgh area. ... “We don’t have to reinvent the wheel.” The panelists at the discussion at Obama Academy on Feb. 11 said educators and researchers have data to show which programs and models are helping to reduce the achievement gap between Black and White students, and which ones aren’t. However they said administrators and board members in the Pittsburgh Public School District are not listening."