By Neil Cosgrove Here’s the awful truth: a significant, at times decisive, set of Pennsylvania legislators don’t believe their state has an obligation to provide affordable higher education to its less affluent […]
Security Firm At Odds With Values Of Many In North Hills Community
BY SISTER MARY TRAUPMAN Trib Media, 3-28-18: “The North Allegheny School District canceled a training session scheduled for March 28 by its security consultant after a parent complained about posts the company’s […]
School Integration
BY MAGGIE WEAVER “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
Stop Banking The Bomb Teach-In
BY Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign Four members from the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign presented at a teach-in at the University of Pittsburgh’s Barco Law Building on March 25. The educational […]
School Integration
By Maggie Weaver “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
Security Firm at Odds With Values of Many in North Hills Community
By Sister Mary Traupman Trib Media, 3-28-18: “The North Allegheny School District canceled a training session scheduled for March 28 by its security consultant after a parent complained about posts the company’s […]
Tuition Trends Need to Change
By Michael Calhoun Ask people what they know about college tuition and usually you get one of two answers: they either say that it costs too much, or that it’s rising too […]
A Story About The Citizen Science Lab
May 8, 2017 By Bette McDevitt On a recent Friday, high school students came into a science lab here in Pittsburgh, put on white coats, blue plastic gloves, and protective eyewear to […]
Duquesne Administration Continues to Defy NLRB and Catholic Social Teaching
May 5, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has, once again, ruled against the Duquesne University administration, telling it to cease nearly five years of stonewalling and begin […]
Bad Budgets = Bad Results
This is a set of articles in which leaders of local service organizations describe the possible impacts of proposed federal budget cuts on the services they provide and the issues that concern […]
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