Protect our best teachers in the city schools (Pgh. Post-Gazette)

Protect our best teachers in the city schools
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
4/29/2012

By Grant Oliphant, Robert Vagt and Gregg Behr

At a public hearing Monday, Pittsburgh Public School board members were riveted by the story of a boy we will call Brian, a first-grader at Faison Elementary, a historically low-performing elementary school in Homewood. Beaten down by a perfect storm of obstacles, Brian had behavior problems and low self-esteem that put him on a depressing downward slide. The system labeled him "special needs," a designation that carries tremendous future costs -- primarily for the child, but also for taxpayers...(READ MORE)

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