Pittsburgh school district chooses next superintendent

Wayne Walters has been selected as Pittsburgh school district's superintendent. 

Walters, 51, has served as the district's interim superintendent since October, reports The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 

The school board is scheduled next week to approve a five-year contract for Walters.

Walters was appointed interim superintendent after Anthony Hamlet resigned amid fallout from a state ethics investigation. 

He was the first principal of Barack Obama Academy of International Studies in Pittsburgh in 2009; in 2014, he became an assistant superintendent.

Pittsburgh, the second largest school district in Pennsylvania, has about 25,000 students.