[naviga:h2]Education Management plans layoffs at HQ [/naviga:h2]

Pittsburgh-based Education Management expects to lay off up to 75 employees at its downtown headquarters this summer.

State labor law requires layoff notices at least 60 days in advance. The notice filed by EDMC this week said the office will close sometime between June 30 and Aug. 31.

The company once had more than 20,000 employees at its headquarters and various for-profit schools throughout the country.

EDMC is closing the headquarters office because it intends to sell the schools that are still accepting new students — including its Art Institute schools, South University and Argosy University — to the Dream Center Foundation.

The Pentecostal group runs programs for underprivileged people.

EDMC has struggled since the Justice Department challenged its enrollment and recruiting practices and eventually paid $95.5 million in penalties and forgave $102.8 million in student loans.

[naviga:h2]Annual marathon will close streets on weekend[/naviga:h2]

About 40,000 runners will participate in the Pittsburgh Marathon or half marathon on Sunday, and those and other shorter events on Saturday will be closing several key roads downtown and elsewhere in the city.

The first road closure begins today on the Boulevard of the Allies, which closes between Wood and Stanwix streets at noon.

That’s so organizers can prepare a finish-line area for several activities related to the race.

Most of the other closures begin Saturday morning in preparation for a 5K race and other events, including a Kids Marathon one-mile run, that day.

The full and half-marathons will be run Sunday.

About 350,000 people are expected to watch the race at some point along the 26.2-mile course.