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[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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A Latino civil rights organization is asking a state appeals court to overturn a judgment that found the Pasadena Unified School District did not violate state law when it closed three elementary schools. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund... More »
Ten Pasadena Unified School District campuses hold Back-to-School Night on Wednesday, the busiest date on a district schedule that spreads the events across 27 listings running from Aug. 20 through Oct. 8. The staggered calendar means most families in Pasadena... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education will consider a resolution at its regular meeting Thursday, Aug. 27, that would commit the district to work toward 30% mature tree canopy in outdoor areas designated for student learning, play and circula... More »
Two brand-new, state-of-the-art massage chairs now line the walls of what used to be an ordinary teacher’s lounge at James Madison Elementary School. The paint is lighter. Motivational quotes stretch across the walls, and a shelf holds healthy snacks that were... More »
