Pittsburgh Public Schools
Organization in Education
Pittsburgh Public Schools has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Daily. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Gene Walker
Walker says the board has an obligation to future students decades from now, not just current ones.
“we have an obligation not just to the students that we have currently, but to the students that we will have 10, 15, 20 years from now”
The Daily: Public Schools Have a New Crisis: Not Enough Students (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 44:10
Sarah MervoshEducation reporter at The New York Times
Mervosh reports that Pittsburgh's schools lost about a quarter of their enrollment over the last decade.
“over the last decade in Pittsburgh, that meant that all of this combined, they've lost about 25 percent of their enrollments”
The Daily: Public Schools Have a New Crisis: Not Enough Students (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 9:40
Podcasts
- The Daily · 1 episode
Episodes
Public Schools Have a New Crisis: Not Enough StudentsThe Daily · Nov 11, 2026 · 48 min
Natalie Kitroeff and education reporter Sarah Mervosh examine shrinking U.S. public school enrollment and Pittsburgh's controversial plan to close schools and end most magnet programs.