Jillian Forstadt
Education ReporterJillian Forstadt is an education reporter at 90.5 WESA. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she covered affordable housing, homelessness and rural health care at WSKG Public Radio in Binghamton, New York. Her reporting has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
She can be reached at jforstadt@wesa.fm.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools employees and administrators have reached a series of tentative contracts for the district’s teachers, clerical workers and student support staff. -
Nearly 84% of all Pittsburgh Public Schools seniors are on track to graduate this school year. -
One nonprofit is urging Pittsburgh Public Schools to redesign district schools so that students are less racially and economically segregated. -
Leaders of a Pittsburgh after-school mentoring program say joining the national Girls Inc. network will bring more opportunities to local elementary school girls and beyond. -
Parents, students and staff at Pittsburgh Conroy are urging school board members not to close their current building. The school serves nearly 200 students with developmental disabilities. -
Students whose families earn less than $75,000 will be able to attend Carnegie Mellon University tuition-free beginning next year. -
Three Western Pennsylvania districts and the Department of Education settled a lawsuit concerning the state’s Culturally-Relevant and Sustaining Education framework. -
More than a dozen former Pittsburgh Public Schools such as Larimer School are now apartment buildings, both affordable and market-rate, according to a WESA analysis. -
After months of planning, analysis and public feedback, Pittsburgh Public Schools announced late Friday that no school closures will take effect for the 2025-2026 school year. -
Superintendent Wayne Walters told school board members Tuesday night that the district is using the latest third-grade reading scores to reevaluate how schools teach the subject.
