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Pasadena Unified School District’s flagship elementary school is Sierra Madre Elementary School. The Sierra Madre school has regularly been seen as PUSD’s highest performing school – #1 when the API scores used to come out and #1 again when the new SBAC testin... More »
For some students, especially those who will be the first in their families to go to college, the choice is simple. The SAT is the only test. It’s the test students hear about and the test students think they “need to take to go to college.” Some students, how... More »
After secretive and opportunistic public policy-making for six years on whether police officers will be advantaged compared to other witnesses by getting an early look at video of their shootings, Pasadena under interim City Manager Steve Mermell is moving to ... More »
Hearings before the Pasadena Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, February 16 and Monday, March 21 will deal with the policy for disclosing forthcoming body-camera video, which includes questions such as the following: Should police officers who kill civilians ... More »
The Pasadena City Council is likely to adopt a policy this Monday night that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. But proposal that the City staff submitted to the City Council includes a number of serious loopholes that could serious... More »
By a 4-0 vote Wednesday night, the City Council’s EDTech Committee forwarded the staff recommendation for a minimum wage to the full Council. Pasadena now is on the verge of enacting Monday night a City minimum wage ordinance with a path to $15 per hour by 202... More »
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and our local business community recognize there is momentum among local political leadership to raise the minimum wage in Pasadena. While raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020 may seem to be a simple solution to man... More »
On Monday, February 1, the Pasadena City Council will make a long anticipated decision about adopting a citywide minimum wage. Mayor Terry Tornek and most council members have declared their support for a $15/hour minimum wage. But the details of the actual or... More »
For some, it’s hard to believe that a city known for parades, shopping and boutique hotels is home to so many people struggling to survive. But the fact remains that Pasadena has pockets of harsh poverty that often go unnoticed. In 2013, the poverty rate in Pa... More »
There have been several bad cops that have done terrible things and get away with is because there is no evidence of what they did. A lot of cops do not want body cameras because they are afraid of being caught doing bad things. In a letter to Pasadena’s Publi... More »
Governor Brown’s proposed 2016-17 Budget, released yesterday, begins legislative efforts to keep California’s finances on track while continuing to invest in our future. I believe investments in our infrastructure, education, and healthcare system are critical... More »
