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          Pasadena City College Ranks 12th in State

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          653 US community colleges were evaluated on three key dimensions: cost and financing, education outcomes and career outcomes.

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          Pasadena Unified’s Alternative Education Center Takes Shape

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          Irma Gutierrez and Her PUSD Family

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          I learned recently that Irma Gutierrez, the office manager at the PUSD Center for Independent Study (CIS Academy), has four siblings and three children working...

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          Principal for a Day at PUSD

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          TodaySupervisor Kathryn Bargertoday Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Friends In Deed’s Executive DirectorPhotostodayhereB-rollherefriendsindeedpas.org...

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          Book Review | “Imperfect Union” by Steve Inskeep

          August 1, 2023 by Scott Phelps

          One book describes how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War.

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          Pasadena Unified High Schoolers Train As Planet Finders at Caltech

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          No Americafest at Rose Bowl This Year

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          Center for Independent Study Senior Founded Nonprofit To Help With Area Needs

          May 31, 2023 by Scott Phelps

          My colleague at Pasadena USD’s Center for Independent Study, Andrea Reynoso, introduced me to Resolve LAresolvelosangeles.

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          Strong Correlation Between Students’ Efforts and Accomplishments

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          Prices All Go Up, Do They Have To?

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          Blair Boys Basketball’s Historic Season Comes to a Close

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          Pasadena Blair’s historic season ended in Round II of the state playoffs on Thursday, March 2. By Scott Phelps San Pedro jumped out to a big lead early on,...

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          Family Moves to Pasadena for Pasadena Unified Armenian Academy

          February 28, 2023 by Scott Phelps

          The Armenian Academy at Blair is now in its third year, how time flies! With PUSD’s Enrollment season upon us, I thought I would share with the public...

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          Pasadena’s Blair HS Senior Is the Winner of a 2023 Posse Scholarship

          February 4, 2023 by Scott Phelps

          Minal Saldivar, a Blair High School Senior, has been awarded a full-tuition scholarship through the Posse Foundation. In Fall 2023, she will join the 19th Posse...

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          Rose Bowl Loop Roadway Update

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          In late December 2021, after City staff indicated there was no plan to re-pave the Rose Bowl loop road, I wrote an appeal to the public in a local digital...

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          Pasadena Unified School Proposes Name Change

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          On November 18 at a morning school assembly, Principal Rita Exposito announced to students, the school staff and the Jackson community the results of the voting...

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