By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The Glendale Unified School District board members were greeted at their first meeting of the year on Tuesday by the drums of Hoover High School student percussionists and goodie bags with items from each GUSD high school. Crescenta Valley High School’s ceramics students contributed to the goodie bags with ceramic pots. After […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The arrival of the Christmas season each year is highlighted by Christmas lights adorned on neighborhood houses, presents bunched under the Christmas tree, and ringing bells. Not just the bells on Santa’s sleigh, but those of the Salvation Army as well. They can be heard from the parking lot of many department […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting brought another round of revisions to the district’s 2013-14 budget. The budget, which underwent its first revision using Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) estimates, still contains a multitude of unknown variables. “There are still a lot of uncertainties with the LCFF,” said Superintendent Dick Sheehan. […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The La Cañada Unified School District governing board voted to postpone voting on a resolution supporting the “territory transfer” of a specified area in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, which falls within Glendale Unified School District boundaries. Board president Scott Tracy explained to the approximately 110-person crowd, 100 of which were […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN Glendale Unified School District, like all school districts across California, must adapt to the new rules mandated by the Local Control Funding Formula, which was signed into law in the 2013-14 state budget by Gov. Brown on July 1. A press release from Brown’s office said that the new formula “replaces California’s […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, a candidate for governor, spoke at a Republican Club of the Foothills meeting held at the La Cañada Thursday Club on Thursday. In his introduction of Donnelly, Phil Downs, president of the club, described the Democratic controlled state government as a “liberal bash.” As the crowd of approximately 100 […]
LCUSD Examines Funding Changes By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The 2013-14 California state budget, which was recently passed by the legislature and currently awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature, is set to take the state’s K-12 school districts in a new financial direction. La Cañada Unified School District is one of many community districts heavily impacted by […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The La Cañada Unified School District governing board began its first round of deliberations at its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday on the recent citizens’ petition that was adopted in a resolution by the La Cañada Flintridge City Council two weeks prior. After three citizens’ efforts and two legislative efforts over the […]