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Public schools offer student diversity, but private schools can often provide more resources… at a price. Black Pittsburgh parents trying to choose where to send their kids to school face a unique dilemma, a new report says.
“I think that the Pittsburgh region needs to almost draw a line in the sand and say, ‘This is not good enough. We are not doing right by our children. We are not doing right by our families of color in the city,’” said Esther Mellinger Stief, executive director of the Crossroads Foundation.
Next year, voters will pick a new Allegheny County executive for the first time since 2011. We asked readers, advocates and potential candidates for their top policy priorities in the coming race for county executive. Here’s what we found, six months ahead of the primaries.
“The law’s there for a reason — to try to strike the right balance of assuring appropriate treatment in emergency situations, but also protecting the rights of people who are receiving treatment or in need of treatment," said Jack Rozel, director of UPMC's resolve Crisis Services. Read the full story here.
The Roundup newsletter will be back on Saturday, Nov. 26.
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