In early March, the Pasadena City Council took steps to close the wage gap when it voted unanimously 8-0 to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. The raise in pay will be made in step increments starting July 1, when the wage rises from the state min... More »
The Star-News has run commentary by Superintendent McDonald that is terribly misleading to the public about the current contract stalemate between Pasadena teachers and the school district. Here are the facts. Pasadena Teachers are at a contract negotiations i... More »
Pasadena Unified School District’s mantra is “Good to Great.” Sounds good, right? Except, that while the teachers at Daniel Webster School are a highly qualified, dedicated group of educators who are passionate about the work they do with their students, they ... More »
Teachers at Washington Elementary STEM Magnet school are angry over PUSD’s unfair compensation for teachers. Over the past eight years, Pasadena teachers have received a 3% pay raise, yet, in terms of salary rank, PUSD teachers are in the lowest 10% among unif... More »
We, the teachers of San Rafael Elementary in Pasadena, are extremely disappointed in the current bargaining of the salary and contract negotiations taking place between the Pasadena Unified School District and the United Teachers of Pasadena. The Dual Language... More »
During the ongoing contract negotiations between the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) and the United Teachers of Pasadena (UTP), most of the public focus has been on the divide in salary compensation. It is an easy topic to explain; Teachers want more m... More »
The Pasadena Unified School District has failed to treat its teachers with the respect we deserve. We are told that teachers are the most important variable in the quality of the education provided to students. Yet, teachers have been offered a paltry 3% salar... More »
Brian McDonald’s public announcement of PUSD’s “Last, Best, and Final Offer” is misleading and self-serving. McDonald’s commentary is an effort to market a non-competitive three year salary proposal and deliberately leaves out any reference to the District’s f... More »
What to tell her handsome young son when his classmates assured him his days at “their” school were just about over because Donald Trump would make sure he was on the other side of The Wall to be built by the Mexican Government. Mom wasn’t a person known for... More »
Approximately half of Pasadenans believe that the Pasadena Police Department treats whites better than minorities and the wealthy better than the poor. Pasadena’s ostriches – the police unions, some City Council Members, some residents – continue to hide their... More »
The Pasadena Police officers’ tactics in the shooting of the 20 year old Latino may well have been best practices, but we won’t ever know for sure if the PD gets away with looking only narrowly at the moment of shooting as it did in the McDade case. The Pasade... More »
To Whom It May Concern, We, the teachers of Sierra Madre Elementary School, feel very strongly that our school board does not appreciate how hard we work. If they did, we would be getting a fair raise- one that reflects the cost of living increases in our area... More »
