Adrienne Ann Mullen

The district’s current approach raises a fundamental question about its priorities, and whether demonstrated student outcomes are being given the weight they...

The Pasadena Unified Board Majority Cooks the Numbers and Uses Logical Fallacies to Achieve a Predetermined Outcome on School Closures.

I recently read an article about the Pasadena City Council’s unanimous decision not to designate the former Roosevelt Elementary School as an historical...

PUSD issued layoffs last March, and in a February 2024 editorial, the leadership explained that the layoffs were necessary “because of the lapsing of one-time...

This is an inflection time for PUSD: Time to chart a new course.

This part compares the scores of individual PUSD schools with those of charter schools that have similar grade spans.  

For comparison with PUSD (plotted as a purple diamond) and the other LA County school districts (plotted as blue circles), this graph adds the scores of the...

GUEST OPINION – PART 1 Voters approved the facilities bond (Measure R) and parcel tax (Measure EE) placed by Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) on...

OPINION In 2019, the same board members who are currently calling for closures targeted some of the more popular, more integrated and higher-achieving schools...

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education may pay over $1 million for a new superintendent this year. The Pasadena Board of Education received...

GUEST OPINION Several senior management staff have left PUSD in the last few months, and the superintendent is leaving June 30th despite a long list of...

GUEST OPINION Dr.