Pasadena Unified schools and offices join California state offices in closing Friday to honor the late Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez. City of Pasadena offices and services remain open and are unaffected. Federal offices and services such as the U... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education voted 6-1 to approve the proposal to consolidate all three coordinator classification at the district. Currently, there are coordinators I, II and III positions at PUSD. Sarah Rudchenko, Interim Ch... More »
A Pasadena Unified middle school named after Octavia E. Butler followed in her footsteps by transporting visitors to a “world that makes more sense than this one” at the annual science fiction fair last week. The Octavia E. Butler (OEB) Magnet Library Science ... More »
Mayfield Senior School in Pasadena is one of the 16 winners of the 2023 Preservation Design Awards announced Thursday by the California Preservation Foundation (CPF). The awards recognize the best in historic preservation, restoration, adaptive reuse, and reha... More »
Sometimes it seems as though scientific advancement occurs at such a rapid pace that its effects on society are barely considered until they have already happened. A new center established at Caltech seeks to examine this intersection of science and society, p... More »
Priscila Marquez, a senior at Cathedral City High School, was in her free period at school when she got the news. “I opened the email and I saw confetti … then I saw that I matched with Caltech, and I just started crying,” says Marquez. She got permission from... More »
University of the West, a private university located in Rosemead, California, will be holding an Open House on Saturday, April 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The open house will give prospective students and their families the opportunity to learn more about t... More »
The Pasadena Educational Foundation has received a $60,000 donation from the Helen and Will Webster Foundation to support paid summer internship stipends for high school students in the Pasadena Unified School District. The funds will provide essential financ... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District’s Reserve level is currently at a historic high of $68 million, school officials said Monday during a joint meeting of the School Board and the Pasadena City Council. Leslie Barnes, PUSD’s Chief Business Officer, said most ... More »
Caltech has joined eight other member colleges and universities in the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU) to launch a new initiative that aims to enhance outreach efforts to inform families and prospective students across t... More »
Nissan Design America is partnering with the Pasadena-based ArtCenter College of Design for a Nissan-sponsored class, as part of the company’s centennial celebrations in 2033. As part of the project, students at the college will use collaborative 3D design tec... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District will provide an update on the district’s overall fiscal outlook including a report on the use of Measure I funds. In 2018, Voters overwhelmingly passed Measure I, a three-quarter cent sales tax increase in November, and Mea... More »
