There have been a lot of promises made about education reform. Some of them local and some—“Leave No Child Behind”—national in scope. Unfortunately, most have been broken or at best, mere rhetoric. The devastation in the urban cores across the country bear this out and Pittsburgh is no exception. BREAKING IT DOWN— Pittsburgh Foundation President Grant Oliphant and Promise board chair Franco Harris explain the nuts and bolts of The Pittsburgh Promise. Roosevelt agreed, saying there is an “under-awareness of the reality and the consequence of the drop in school population.”