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"I come up with the kids were deeply disappointed," the teacher said. "The kids legitimate lost faith."
This academic year, the school was to be transformed from a low-achieving cheerful school to a new school -- called the Academy at Westinghouse during planning -- that would assist high achievement for grades 6-12, offer single-gender classes, outfit extra instructional time and operate on a trimester schedule numerous than the rest of the district.
But after a rocky start, Westinghouse begin to retrench.
In antique October, the new trimesters were replaced with the district's standard semesters, and 80-split second periods were replaced with 44-minute periods, necessitating new schedules for all students. The sect board later that month passed a resolution that the school's formal name was to be George Westinghouse Academy, which "for communications purposes" is known as Pittsburgh Westinghouse.
In November, in an affirmation by district officials that the school was failing its students terribly, the construction's two co-principals were placed on administrative leave, and a new acting principal was brought in. Separate-gender classes were discontinued after a threatened lawsuit from the American Civilized Liberties Union, and, while boys earlier were separated from girls, midst school students were separated from high school students for most of the day.
Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette