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Maranatha High School to issue all students an iPad mini
Pasadena's Maranatha High School is using to the iPad mini to take a giant step into the digital world. Come August, all Maranatha students and teachers will be issued one of the tablet computers for use during classes -- often in place of paper...
Tags: Students, Apple iPad, Education
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Pasadena City College trustee Geoffrey Baum will not seek re-election
Longtime Pasadena City College Board of Trustees member Geoffrey Baum will not seek re-election in November, he announced Thursday night in a letter to colleagues and supporters. Baum is wrapping up his third four-year term for a board seat representing...
Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Students, Elections
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The woeful selection of PCC leadership
As one who taught at PCC for 40 years, I was personally involved in the establishment of state-mandated shared government procedures (AB 1725) which require that faculty, staff and students be significantly involved in matters that affect them,...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Education, Teachers, Budgets and Budgeting
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Despite state budget revise, Pasadena Unified lays off 96 educators
Despite optimistic projections of increased state funding for public education next year, Pasadena Unified school board members this week approved layoffs for 96 full- or part-time educators. Although many of the layoffs could still be rescinded after...Tags: Regional Authority, Economy, Business and Finance, Executive Branch, Teachers, Career and Workplace
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Pasadena City College may ban smoking
Pasadena City College may soon prohibit smoking on campus, following other colleges across California that have instituted similar bans. When a campus-wide no-smoking policy would take effect — and whether it would involve fines for students,...
Tags: Fines, Colleges and Universities, Students, Education, Punishment
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Three Caltech professors named to National Academy of Sciences
Three Caltech professors, including one famous for “killing” Pluto, were named Tuesday to the National Academy of Sciences. They included Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, geochemistry professor Ken Farley and chemical engineering professor...Tags: Science, Google+, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Teachers
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Pasadena school board decides to cut again
Pasadena school board members voted Tuesday to slash 48 jobs — this on top of 94 teacher, librarian and counselor pink slips in March — in their ongoing struggle to close a projected $8.8-million budget gap. Positions to be eliminated in...Tags: Unemployment, Science and Technology, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Teachers
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Reviewing PUSD meeting's 'messy outcome'
I wanted to respond to both the article and editorial about the Pasadena Unified School District budget cuts which appeared in the April 7 Pasadena Sun. I disagree that the board “seriously limited flexibility” of PUSD staff in the budget...Tags: Unemployment, Politics, Elections, Teachers, Career and Workplace
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Something is seriously wrong at PCC
My husband read part of the editorial of the Pasadena Sun to me (“The ridiculous impasse at PCC,” March 24). It made me feel ashamed to be a faculty member of PCC. Is this how anyone associated with PCC wants the community to perceive the...Tags: Teachers, Education
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Pasadena City College begins offering online classes
The way higher education is administered across the nation has changed dramatically as more colleges pump up their online course offerings. Nationwide, 32% of all college students have taken an online course. In California, the figure is closer to 27%....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Education
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Pasadena schools face cash crunch
Pasadena Unified officials are struggling to find about $10 million in cuts to balance next year's budget amid concerns that school board members didn't issue enough teacher layoff notices to get the district through a worst-case funding scenario....Tags: Politics, Unemployment, Elections, Executive Branch, Teachers
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Student teams ace Mars plan at Caltech
It could take several months for aerospace experts to design a manned mission to a Martian moon. Students pulled off the feat in five days. Caltech hosted a competition on its Pasadena campus this week that divided 32 students from 21 different...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Science, Students, Science and Technology, Aerospace Manufacturing
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