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 »
The sky is gray, but you’re not sure if the clouds will clear or rain will pour. Do you grab an umbrella when you go outside? Decisions like this are filled with ambiguity, and we’re faced with them every day, whether picking stocks or choosing the sweetest wa... More »
The California Department of Education on Wednesday released the 2011 Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) which showed that Pasadena Unified School District schools improved one percentage point in their Academic Performance Index (API) scores from 758 in ... More »
The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office has teamed up with the California Connects Program to provide Pasadena City College’s Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Achievement (MESA) students with laptop computers, Microsoft certification, and... More »
The entire 2011 graduating class of the Radiologic Technology program at Pasadena City College has passed the national board exam and received their national certification and state licenses. “The students that come into this program are really dedicated,â€... More »
