CPE News

Consortium taps six winners at Champions of Learning Awards celebration and makes special tribute Winners in six categories took center stage Saturday, April 1, 2017 when the Consortium for Public Education presented its annual Champions of Learning Awards. Don Marinelli, Director of Innovation at 535 Media/Inven Global, emceed the event at the Pittsburgh Marriott City […]

CCK hosted college and apprenticeship visits in March Our College & Career Knowledge (CCK) program has had a busy month in March, with visits to Penn State Greater Allegheny and two apprenticeship training centers. Groups of students from Clairton, McKeesport Area and Steel Valley High Schools spent a half at Penn State Greater Allegheny touring […]

Students recommend remedies for stormwater runoff  Teams from Penn Hills and South Fayette school districts presented findings and recommendations last week after ALCOSAN  (Allegheny County Sanitary Authority) tasked them with identifying ways to reduce storm water runoff on the campuses of their respective schools. They took up the challenge as part of our Student Powered […]

Human-centered design principles lay foundation for partnership discussions Districts involved in the Consortium’s Career Ready initiative convened this week with representatives from business and higher education to develop models for partnerships. Using human-centered design principles at a March 15 meeting, they worked in groups to flesh out “personas” of students in several age groups and […]

Sixteen employers to host site visits  Some 400 students and team advisors from nearly 30 high schools participating in The Future Is Mine (TFIM) will fan out on the first day of our 2017 Student Leadership Conference to explore careers with 16 different employers. The two-day Conference takes place April 20-21 at the Pittsburgh Marriott […]

ALCOSAN project offers hands-on challenge and eligibility for college credit Students from Penn Hills and South Fayette school districts will be collaborating with ALCOSAN in the coming weeks to make recommendations for reducing storm water runoff on their high school campuses.  To kick off the project, the teams met last week with Julia Spicher, a […]

Students bring fresh perspective to PANTHERx PANTHERx Specialty Pharmacy General Manager Tim Davis was impressed enough with the work he saw from kids performing a project for his company that he wanted to follow up on their ideas. He was particularly interested recommendations that PANTHERx switch to cellulose packaging for drug deliveries, equip high tech […]

Scholarship qualifications and guidelines Under a program made available from the Regional Chamber Alliance Foundation, the Consortium is pleased to announce scholarship opportunities to seniors graduating from nine area high schools as well as to students attending the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. This program provides up to four $500 scholarships for seniors in the Mon-Yough […]

  Introducing the finalists for our 2017 Champions of Learning Awards You can and should make reservations now to attend our annual Champions of Learning Awards celebration on Saturday, April 1. Meanwhile, we’ve been introducing the finalists, working our way through one category a week in alphabetical order over the past six weeks.  Now it’s time for the final […]

  Model Cleaners CEO praises student-consulting work When a team of Albert Gallatin School District students suggested that Model Cleaners hire a social media manager, company President John LaCarte called the idea “spot on.” He also praised a customer video they’d created for having an authentic feel, more like ones he’s seen on Facebook than […]