The Pittsburgh Public School District is, by far, the biggest parachute dragging behind the City of Pittsburgh. It is impossible to imagine the city thriving again as a complete community — that is, not just as a retirement community slash playground for college students and recent grads — until the public schools have been radically transformed.

Yet this week’s confused and confounding vote by the PPS board to shelve its school reorganization and closure plan, capping a two-year-long debacle, has confirmed that the district is simply unreformable under current governance.

There is, therefore, only one choice: Mayor-elect Corey O’Connor must appeal to Gov. Josh Shapiro to support legislation placing the district’s finances under state supervision, and disbanding the elected board in favo

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