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The Pasadena Unified School District has successfully refinanced a portion of its outstanding general obligation bonds, saving local taxpayers over $10 million by reducing its long-term borrowing costs, the District told its community in an email Friday. Accor... More »
Crews removed more trees at John Muir High School Early College Magnet on Thursday, the Pasadena Unified School District said in an email, as it works to finish Eaton Fire soil cleanup before classes resume across the district on August 17. The vegetation — “s... More »
Pasadena Unified School District has emailed families across Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre a 2026-27 Welcome Kit and a message from the superintendent, about two and a half weeks before students return to classrooms on Monday, Aug. 17. “We look forward t... More »
Incumbent Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board member Kimberly Kenne has officially qualified for the Nov. 3 general election, becoming the first incumbent in this year’s school board races to secure a place on the ballot. Kenne, who represents Distri... More »
Two students from the same Pasadena Unified elementary school drew the two winning entries in Pasadena Water and Power’s 2026 water conservation art contest: a fifth-grader who drew a girl holding a melting Earth shaped like a heart, and a third-grader who dre... More »
[Updated] Anyone who has sat through a Pasadena Unified School District board meeting since the Eaton Fire — replete with soil remediation, enrollment, campus rebuilding, consolidations, budget shortfalls, a protected tree ordinance — and thought the job cou... More »
On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner denied the school district’s request for an injunction that would have stopped the City from enforcing its tree protection ordinance while a lawsuit proceeds. In his ruling Lipner said he denied the req... More »
The already contentious relationship between the city and the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) continues to worsen. The PUSD has filed a lawsuit against the city, asking a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to block the city from enforcing its tree... More »
Two students at ArtCenter College of Design have turned coursework into national recognition, each earning $30,000 from the Angelo Donghia Foundation for design projects envisioning immersive hospitality spaces. Sophie Metzger and Mary Nersesyan, both studying... More »
Harambee Ministries will close out its 2026 Summer Academy with a student showcase on Thursday, July 23, at the John Muir High School auditorium in northwest Pasadena, the organization announced in a press release. According to the release, the event — titled ... More »
The community college seat that ties Northwest Pasadena to southwest Altadena will be on the ballot again this fall, and the man who holds it wants to keep it. Dr. Steve Gibson, who joined the Pasadena Area Community College District Board of Trustees in 2022 ... More »
Two more prospective candidates have pulled nomination papers to run for the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education. Incumbent Michelle Richardson Bailey pulled papers to seek re-election to her District 3 seat, where she is expected to fac... More »
