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 »
PUSD Superintendent Jon Gundry during State of the Schools event, Sept. 15, 2011. Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) Superintendent Jon Gundry during his speech at the State of the Schools Thursday night emphasized the need for more engaging and collabora... More »
They brought cup cakes, streamers and banners. There were live jazz bands too. And don’t forget the balloons. And they sang Happy Birthday! With that, the Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF), one of the Pasadena Unified School District’s (PUSD) most import... More »
[UPDATED: 9/15/2011 at 1:15 p.m.] The Pasadena Educational Foundation (PEF), which has grown into one of the Pasadena Unified School District’s (PUSD) most important support organizations — last year bringing it over $10 million — will celebrate its 40th a... More »
Pacific Oaks College begins the fall semester with a new academic leadership team: Dr. Linda Clowers, the college’s new vice president of academic affairs; Dr. Carl Kalani Beyer, dean of the School of Education and School of Human Development and Family Studie... More »
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Tuesday called President Barack Obama backwards and blasted him as the “most effective food stamp president in American history†before a jam-packed crowd of over 300 in the Romanesque Room at the Castle Gre... More »
