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Pasadena City College opens its summer session Monday, a single eight-week term running through Aug. 14 that carries the college’s counseling, financial aid and basic-needs services through the summer. The 2026 term is one consolidated session, not a set of ov... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to continue removing fire-contaminated soil at 11 district sites while authorizing staff to evaluate whether as many as 57 protected trees in the work zones can be spared. The d... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District is telling residents not to enter its Eaton Fire cleanup sites — and warning that walking onto them is trespassing. The soil there, the district said in a June 16, 2026 statement, is contaminated at levels harmful “to the h... More »
Pasadena Unified School District has paused tree removal work at its Education Center after a community member reported an active bird nest in a tree scheduled for removal, according to a district statement issued Tuesday. The district said tree removal at the... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control in a joint statement Monday, June 15 affirmed their position that removing certain trees is the safest and most appropriate way to clean fire-contaminated soil tied ... More »
Francis Pollara, a Pasadena City College alumnus and La Cañada Flintridge city commissioner, has launched a campaign for the college’s Board of Trustees Area 1 seat, putting a second declared candidate into a November 2026 race that already includes former boa... More »
[UPDATED] The United Teachers of Pasadena has adopted a resolution calling for “fully staffed, stable, integrated” schools across Pasadena Unified. A union representative read a statement summarizing the resolution to the Board of Education during the board’s ... More »
Active Minds and Google.org on Thursday announced a $5 million initiative to expand youth mental health programming to 100,000 students nationwide, launching the effort in Altadena alongside high school students still navigating the aftermath of the Eaton Fire... More »
It was a warm and bright morning on Beckman Mall, where the 2026 graduates gathered, dressed in caps and gowns, and in the company of their proud families and friends. At the ceremony, remarks from Board of Trustees Vice Chair Barbara Barrett; from President T... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District said Friday that its legal counsel has concluded members of the Board of Education did not violate California’s open-meeting law in connection with the board’s December 11, 2025, approval of Resolution 2852, the measure tha... More »
Seventeen months after the Eaton Fire leveled their neighborhoods, Pasadena and Altadena high school students are being asked to walk into the building where their community has been putting itself back together — and this time, to lead. Youth Mental Health Ad... More »
Three days before a deadline to rescind a contested school-consolidation resolution or face litigation, the Pasadena Unified School District’s governing board divided 4-3 on a narrower question: whether to say anything publicly about the open-meeting allegatio... More »
