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Dave Lettrich, executive director of the street outreach group Bridge to the Mountains, comforts Caydee, a woman experiencing homelessness, on Dec. 21 during a Downtown candlelight vigil, organized by Pittsburgh Mercy’s Operation Safety Net, to remember 23 people known to have died while unhoused in Pittsburgh in the past year. The previous year, there were 13. Homelessness is now "at a different level of crisis, and we’re going to have to figure out who we are – maybe before we really figure out what to do,” said Dr. Jim Withers, founder of the Street Medicine Institute. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Inside our Newsroom

In 2023, Pittsburgh and Allegheny county news overflowed — and the shelters did, too

by Jamie Wiggan and Rich Lord December 29, 2023May 8, 2024

A group of people sitting at a table as a person talks to them via video.

Decisions loom over PPS as board passes deficit budget

by Lajja Mistry December 20, 2023December 24, 2023

A group of people sitting in a conference room.

PPS strategic plan eyes school closures to save costs and improve student experience

by Lajja Mistry and Jamie Wiggan December 7, 2023December 11, 2023

A group of people sitting at a table as another person speaks to them via video.

Public weighs in on PPS deficit budget: Some feel frozen out, others fear closures

by Lajja Mistry December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

A red brick building, Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts school.

How magnet schools attract some, repel others, and contribute to Pittsburgh’s polarized education system

by Lajja Mistry December 4, 2023November 22, 2024

School locations, demographics and resources tip the scales on academic outcomes in PPS

by Lajja Mistry November 21, 2023December 11, 2023

Pittsburgh Public Schools board candidates, from left to right, Dwayne Barker, Yael Silk and Emma Yourd. (Photos courtesy of candidates and LinkedIn)

New board members lay out their visions as PPS prepares for closures and budget cuts

by Lajja Mistry November 7, 2023November 8, 2023

Wade Lipscomb, a recipient of The Pittsburgh Promise and owner of Triple 3 Construction, stands in the private boxes at PPG Paints Arena, where his company did the drywall and ceiling work, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

The Pittsburgh Promise helped thousands of students pay for college. As costs rise, the funding is going away.

by Lajja Mistry and Emma Folts October 31, 2023October 31, 2023

A teacher and students, with currency interposed. (Photo illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource)

Higher need, lower experience: Pittsburgh’s tenured teachers cluster in best-supported schools

by Lajja Mistry October 23, 2023October 27, 2023

The Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy 6-12 Bulldogs, left, shake hands with the Taylor Allderdice High School Dragons at the start of their football game, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at Cupples Stadium in the South Side. The high schools sit only three miles apart but the disparities range from academic programming to infrastructure. At left, the blue and yellow uniformed Bulldogs, at right, white and green Dragons. The two players at front pound fists as a greeting. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Allderdice and Westinghouse, 3 miles away, are worlds apart in AP classes, teacher experience, student disadvantage

by Lajja Mistry October 3, 2023October 22, 2023