The path to science glory leads to Pasadena for 15 students contending for the year’s top teen science prize. The first weekend in November, these young innovators will compete for the highest science honor awarded to American high school students when the S... More »
CORRECTION:Â The original version of this story quoted School Board Member Ed Honowitz as describing Scott Phelps’ actions as “Gestapo tactics.” In fact, Honowitz was quoting the words of Ray Cortines. What Honowitz actually said was “”Mr. Cortinez, as the on... More »
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been rated the world’s number one university in the 2011–2012 Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities, knocking Harvard University out of the top spot for the first time in the su... More »
The Pasadena Unified Board of Education is set to vote on the employment contract for the district’s new Chief Academic Officer in a closed door meeting Tuesday, a district official told Pasadena Now. The official would not name the individual who has been sel... More »
The voting lasted less than five seconds amidst cheers from the audience. Voting 7-0, the PUSD Board of Education on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted Resolution 2,166 urging the Pasadena City Council to add an eighth guiding principle to the city’s General Plan:... More »
The Invest in PUSD Kids (IIPK) parents group is calling for supporters of public schools to attend the Tuesday (September 27) meeting of the PUSD Board of Education to lobby for approval of a resolution that seeks the City Council’s ratification of an 8th ... More »
City Manager Michael J. Beck announced today that Siobhan Foster has been appointed the new director of the Pasadena Department of Public Works effective Wednesday, Oct. 26. For the past six years Foster has overseen and managed the Public Works Department for... More »
Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is set to approve a resolution praising “Nutrition, Health and Walk to School Week†which is celebrated annually by Altadena, Cleveland, Webster, Madison and Willard schools and this will be held October ... More »
Remember how your imagination was so powerful and so real when you were you a child? Wouldn’t it be delicious to be able to let yourself go… to let the real world morph into a fantasy place of your making, if even only once in a while? Have we got the place fo... More »
Long-time Pasadena Assistant Public Information Officer Linda Centell will be retiring on Sept. 21, the dept. announced today. The city also said that Tim McGillivray has been hired as Centell’s successor and that Lisa Derderian, City Emergency Management Coor... More »
Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Superintendent Jon Gundry says he wants the children of Pasadena to be ready to embrace and conquer a future we can now only imagine. To achieve this goal, teachers, principals and administrators must shift their focus t... More »
PUSD Board of Education President Renatta Cooper and Superintendent Jon R. Gundry during the question-and-answer portion of the State of the Schools event in the Pasadena Convention Center on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011. Schools are the heart of the community, Pa... More »
