Next week, the application period opens up for late open enrollment, running from April 11 to April 17
Students ranging from K-12 grade levels participated in an art and essay contest in honor of labor activist Cesar Chavez. Five students in Altadena schools placed in the contest.
Pasadena attorney Molly Munger discussed the initiative she wants to get on the November ballot that she says would raise billions for schools.
The board will officially take action on the plan at a later meeting.
The Pasadena Unified School Board will discuss a plan that would switch the district to electoral subdistricts and give Altadena two board members accountable to the town.
The sessions start Thursday night at Eliot Middle School with a program on the transition to high school.
Andrea Risolo is one of six local teens who will spend their spring break working with kids in El Salvador and renovating a rural school.
Do you think the schools are a good use of public funds? And more importantly would you, or do you, send your child to one?
Students and parents will blow bubbles in front of the school on Thursday as part of a campaign to protest education budget cuts in California.
Eliot kids will have a chance to see what a 3.5 earthquake is like in a simulator that will be brought to the school Monday morning.
Daryl Bilandzija has a chance to win a $10,000 grant for Odyssey Charter School, according to a release from the school.
The task force working on a plan to move PUSD to electoral districts has to decide on a couple of issues that would greatly affect incumbent PUSD board members' ability to run for a future district seat.
Hundreds of students walked off campus at lunch to support Muir principal Sheryl Orange, but returned to class in the afternoon.
A Pasadena Unified districting committee released a map that will be the basis for a plan to switch the district-wide school board elections to smaller electoral districts.
On oboe was robbed from a victim on Lake Avenue this week - there was also a containment that led to the arrest of two burglars
The board will meet next Tuesday to issue the 80 notices, though it is likely far fewer could be laid off.
At last Tuesday's meeting, the Pasadena Unified School Board set conditions Aveson must meet by June 30 in order to have its charter renewed. Some criticized the school for its academic performance and lack of diversity.
The Pasadena Star-News reports that Sheryl Orange, the principal at John Muir High School, will not return in that role next year.
The club announced Wednesday that it awarded the money in 35 "mini-grants" that go directly to program ideas proposed by PUSD teachers.
The PUSD Districting Task Force, which is developing a plan for electoral subdistricts in the local school district, will unveil a new map proposal at its next meeting Saturday.
The Altadena Town Council will hear a modified proposal for a private high school on Palm Street on Tuesday.
Eliot Middle School teacher and students held an official ceremony opening a new raised bed vegetable and flower garden that got started with a grant from an organization affiliated with 'Bad Teacher' star Cameron Diaz.
Social studies teacher Manuel Rustin was awarded a prestigious National Milken Educator Award in a surprise ceremony on Wednesday.
New cash award will enhance science program
The Pasadena Unified School District announced the winners of its annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay and art contest, and one winner is from Jackson Elementary.
The school, which has a campus in Altadena, is holding an open house this weekend for potential students.
The Pasadena Unified School District has released a list with the number of openings at each school and program for parents using the open enrollment process.
The Pasadena Unified School District will be accepting applications from parents who want to enroll their children in schools outside their neighborhood zone starting January 11.
Pasadena Unified School District will lose nearly $2 million in state funds in midyear cuts from the state budget this month.
The Pasadena Unified School District has scheduled a series of community meetings in January and February to discuss the new sub-regional district boundaries.
At Altadena Patch we are listing some of the local trends of 2011 in Altadena. Here we look at traffic: accidents, collisions, and some of the discussion we've had on the site.
Despite the changes to Philip Clarke's amended CUP, which he presented to the Land Use Committee Tuesday, the neighbors closest to the school still do not want him to open his proposed satellite high school in their residential neighborhood.
All campuses will be open on Monday as long as they have power, district officials say.
At Tuesday's meeting there were some tense moments as various community members told the board that they were focusing on educating Latino students at the expense of black students.
Local vendors are encouraged to apply to the market, which will be open to the public on November 19.
Bruce Wasson, the head of a group that has advocated for a separate Altadena school district says the idea is not viable for the time being.
The committee is developing a proposal to switch Pasadena Unified to an electoral system divided by geographic area.
Students at John Muir High School are forming friendships over the years with mentors they met when they were freshmen.
The alternative was voted upon at Tuesday night's hearing on whether or not to censure member Scott Phelps.
The Pasadena Unified School Board voted Tuesday night to hire consultants to draw up a potential new electoral map with electoral subdistricts that would result in board members representing specific geographic areas.