Saturday, September 5, 2026 | 6:12 am
Pasadena Unified School District told the Longfellow Magnet School community in an email Friday that no tree removal was “currently happening,” and that it is taking a fresh look at the available arborist, environmental and remediation information before makin... More »
Friday, September 4, 2026 | 6:49 am
The Pasadena Board of Education spent roughly two hours Thursday night line-editing a draft definition of “district transformation” and adjourned with school consolidation written in among the options, a running list of “points of contention,” no vote on the f... More »
Thursday, September 3, 2026 | 5:44 am
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is scheduled to return Thursday evening to a discussion halted on Aug. 31, meeting once again as a Committee of the Whole to edit a draft definition of the “District Transformation Process” — after Monday... More »
Thursday, September 3, 2026 | 4:08 am
Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education member Michelle Richardson Bailey laid out her case for re-election in a message to District 3 voters Wednesday, Sept. 2, citing the district’s five-year strategic plan, the student think tank and a balanced ... More »
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 | 6:37 am
[UPDATED] The Pasadena Unified School District has told families at Longfellow Elementary Magnet School that contractors and arborists tried but could not avoid the need to destroy six mature trees on the school’s Washington Boulevard front lawn, and about a d... More »
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 | 6:04 am
Pasadena Unified School District says several mature trees on the front lawn of Longfellow Elementary School will have to be removed to finish clearing lead-contaminated soil, the outcome of the preservation analysis its board ordered in June. Six mature or pr... More »
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 | 5:45 am
The Pasadena Board of Education shut down both of its special meetings Monday night — one convened to define the district’s “transformation process,” the second set to take up school consolidation — after a speaker’s formal Brown Act demand exposed that the di... More »
Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 6:40 am
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education will consider a resolution Thursday, Aug. 27, that would set a goal of covering 30% of the outdoor areas designated for student learning, play and circulation with mature tree canopy by 2035. Resolution N... More »
Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 6:39 am
John Muir High School will celebrate its 100th anniversary in November with a centennial gathering honoring generations of students and alumni while launching a $100,000 fundraising campaign to support the school’s future. The Centennial Celebration is schedul... More »
Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 6:35 am
Four Pasadena Unified schools will be recognized at the annual California PBIS Conference in October, the district announced. James Madison Elementary School, John Muir High School Early College Magnet and Rose City High School earned Platinum, the highest lev... More »
Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 5:50 am
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is scheduled to vote Thursday on a resolution directing Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Blanco to review elementary school technology practices and to recommend ways to significantly reduce what the document... More »
Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 5:36 am
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is consider at its Thursday, Aug. 27 meeting whether to approve a capital program update that would reallocate $23.8 million in bond money, move planned modernization work at five campuses into master pla... More »