A principal at Pittsburgh’s Perry Traditional Academy has been placed on leave pending an internal investigation.
Pittsburgh Public Schools is investigating his role in breaking up a fight on a school bus outside the school, according to a statement obtained by Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV.
The school district declined to release additional information. The principal’s name was not released.
WPXI said witnesses reported that the principal choked one of the students involved in the fight after breaking it up.
Perry Traditional is a high school on Pittsburgh’s North Side.
