Schools
North Allegheny Adds Teachers, Administrator
The additional staff is needed because of an increase of 52 elementary students this year.
With 52 new elementary students, the North Allegheny School district has had to hire the equivalent of almost three more teachers, and an assistant principal for this school year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The school board had publicly promised to keep elementary class sizes lower than last year, when many parents complained about overcrowded classrooms.
The assistant principal was hired at McKnight Elementary, which had been sharing an assistant principal with Marshall Elementary for two years.
The district hired a total of 60 new teachers this year, most of them to replace teachers who took advantage of an early retirement incentive, superintendent Raymond Gualtieri told the board during its Wednesday night meeting.
Board President Maureen Grosheider was pleased that 37-percent of the teachers had master's degrees. "That is a really nice percentage," she told the P-G. "People who come to us with master's degrees tend to be more skilled in the classroom."
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