City schools superintendent schedules news conference; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/6/16

Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; City schools superintendent schedules news conference:

"Anthony Hamlet, the recently hired Pittsburgh Public Schools superintendent, will hold a news conference Tuesday afternoon to address apparent discrepancies in his resume related to graduation rates and school performance improvement in the south Florida district where he worked before coming to Pittsburgh.

In an unusual Sunday press release, the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ board of directors said Mr. Hamlet would “provide context to information shared on his resume that has recently come under question in the media.”

A May 29 article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette found that while his resume stated that two schools in the Palm Beach County school system had “moved from ‘F’ to ‘C’” during his tenure as principal, both schools were already “C” schools before he took over.

The article also noted that federal graduation rates in the district improved by 4 percent during his tenure instead of the 13 percent claimed in his resume. He has said the higher percentage includes those who graduated after an extended summer session...

The Tuesday press conference is scheduled for 2:30 p.m., in the school Administration Building, 341 S. Bellefield Ave., in Oakland."