Parents, organizers decry Pittsburgh Public Schools' ‘Swiss cheese’ plan to close facilities in the district - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Parents, organizers decry Pittsburgh Public Schools' ‘Swiss cheese’ plan to close facilities in the district - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Nina Louise Dagavarian, age 7, spent the latter portion of Monday afternoon sitting on a concrete sidewalk that had baked in the day’s 90-degree heat. In her hands she clutched an oversized picture of her school, Woolslair Elementary, considered a gem when it first opened in the Bloomfield neighborhood 126 years ago.  About 40 adults stood around Nina. Some held signs – “Fight for our children,” read one, and “Closing schools is not brave or cou…