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Education
Past PPS closures still haunt district parents. Families worry they’ll go through it again.
Pittsburgh Public Schools’ last round of school consolidations hit the West Side hard, with three of the seven total closures taking place in Sheraden, Crafton Heights and Elliott in 2012. Parents like Shayla Penn, of Sheraden, endured those closures just over a decade ago. She now worries her family...
Jewish student attacked near Pitt's campus recounts incident
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Jewish student who was attacked in late September near Pitt's campus in Oakland while wearing a Star of David necklace shared his story for the first time, saying that he has no plans to hide his religious identity. Brandon Bowman told KDKA-TV he was walking home late at night when a man walking with a group of about seven others made eye contact with him and his necklace. "They identified me as a Jew, and then they said things about Israel [and] my religion," Bowman said. They included defamatory insults, slurs about Jews, and other "vile" inflammatory language, he said....
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