SPONSORED BY COUNCILWOMAN THERESA-KAIL SMITH
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Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title One - Administrative, Article IX - Boards, Commissions and Authorities, Chapter 178 - Community Advisory Boards, by adding Section 178D, entitled, Pittsburgh Education Commission.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1 The Pittsburgh Code, Title One - Administrative, Article IX - Boards, Commissions and Authorities, Chapter 178 - Community Advisory Boards, is hereby supplemented by adding Section 178D Pittsburgh Education Commission, as follows.
TITLE ONE: ADMINISTRATIVE
ARTICLE IX: BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND AUTHORITIES
CHAPTER 178: COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARDS
CHAPTER 178D PITTSBURGH EDUCATION COMMISSION
? 178D.01 Education
? 178D.02 Responsibility and Powers
? 178D.03 Membership
? 178D.04 Terms
? 178D.05 Vacancies
? 178D.06 Officers
? 178D.07 Meetings
? 178D.01 PITTSBURGH EDUCATION COMMSSION
The Pittsburgh Education Commission shall be created to carry on the duties of Mayor William Peduto's Education Task Force, including overseeing the implementation of recommendations published by the Task Force in its report in five key areas relevant to education in the City of Pittsburgh - public safety, out-of-school time programing, community schools, school funding, and marketing the City schools - and the formation and implementation of new recommendations made by the Commission in the five specified areas and others as determined by a majority of the Commission.
? 178D.02 RESPONSIBILITIES AND POWERS
The responsibilities and powers of the Pittsburgh Education Commission shall be to:
(a) Oversee the implementation of policy recommendations made by the Education Task Force.
(b) Continue to find areas of collaboration between the City of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh School District, and other relevant organizations and institutions on the five areas identified by the Tas...
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