PUBLIC SAFETY
Active shooter trainings in PA: What have Allegheny County school districts spent?
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Pennsylvania schools are required to hold security drills. Most schools are avoiding big expenses.
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Pennsylvania schools are required to hold security drills. Most schools are avoiding big expenses.
With mass shootings on the rise, school districts find themselves with the responsibility to prepare students and staff. But there is little study to how effective drills are and if there are long-term implications.
Oh, I feel nervous, and I know it’s a drill,’ said one principal, hiding under a desk.
From 2017 to 2018, I investigated the opioid crisis in Southwestern Pennsylvania while my father was homeless in Pittsburgh. He was dying in the street as I wrote about others experiencing the same reality.
Aging workers make up a small portion of the national workforce, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers 65 and older are projected to be the fastest growing group from 2016 to 2026.
Zita Iwuoha is a midwife whose mission to save black mothers and babies began in Nigeria, but once she realized that black mothers in Allegheny County were facing a similar reality, she began to expand her scope.
In the past six years, KeAnna experienced the deaths of two partners — both heart attacks. She lost housing and couldn’t keep her job in child care while also making sure her own children were cared for. She recently found a job in home health care that pays roughly $7.50 an hour. This is low-wage living.
“If you ask five questions on the same subject, you get five different answers. It's frightening, it really is.”
Should a murder conviction disqualify a person from public housing?
Under the nonprofit’s “no-show” attendance policy, clients get discharged from services if they miss three appointments in six months. This policy is not new, but PERSAD only began reviewing the policy with patients and asking them to sign it in the fall. And concern over this policy is not the only upheaval occurring at PERSAD.