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WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An impoverished suburban school district has voted to send its seventh-12th grade students to a school in the neighboring Pittsburgh Public Schools district.
The plan was approved Tuesday night by the Wilkinsburg School Board. The Pittsburgh School Board must vote on the plan Wednesday night.
Wilkinsburg is making the move because low enrollment has made it difficult to offer a wide variety of classes and extracurricular activities, and because the middle/high school built in 1910 was last expanded in 1940 and needs repairs.
Instead, Wilkinsburg wants to send the students to Pittsburgh Westinghouse Academy, which expects only 435 Pittsburgh students to be enrolled there in grades six through 12 next fall.
Wilkinsburg would pay Pittsburgh $8,000 per student next year and $9,600 to educate each student every year thereafter.
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