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The Arcadia School Board after a two-hour closed session decided that Foothills Middle School music teacher Sandra Ragusa - who resigned but then quickly changed her mind - could not have her job back.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24654
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 9, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 9, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Ragusa, Sandra
Schools - Foothills Middle School
Item ID
24844AN
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Newspaper Index
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After 21 years with the Arcadia Unified School District, superintendent Mimi Hennessy, 63, is retiring. Her last day will be July 1, 2008, and Joel Shawn will take her place.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31032
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 21, 2008
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 21, 2008
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District - superintendents - educators
Hennessy, Mimi
Item ID
31227AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia schools start on Tuesday, Sept. 2 along with other area schools. Due to state budget cuts students in the Arcadia Unified School District will no longer be buses to school for free. Enrollment for Arcadia 9,720.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26238
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2003
Pages
"p. A1, A6"
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2003
Pages
"p. A1, A6"
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
26439AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School's Science Bowl team went 3-3 on Sunday, but failed to make the cut of 18 teams for play on Monday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25501
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
25700AN
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Newspaper Index
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In Newsweek's 2003 Challenge Index, of the 739 schools rated and billed as the "best high schools in America," Arcadia High School ranked #221.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25626
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 30, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 30, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
25826AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School graduates some 800 students at the commencement held at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25640
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
25840AN
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Newspaper Index
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Many public schools in the west San Gabriel Valley have new teachers and administrators. Arcadia Unified welcomes more than 30 new teachers and a new principal at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29661
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 29, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 29, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools
Arcadia Unified School District
Item ID
29846AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia High School tennis season has been perfect, and the 18-0 Apaches hope to keep it that way when the CIF Southern Section Division II team playoffs begin.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25542
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2003
Pages
p. C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 13, 2003
Pages
p. C2
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Tennis
Item ID
25741AN
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Newspaper Index
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Due to heavy smoke from the Williams Fire in the Angeles National Forest, schedules at schools were cut back including the postponement of the tennis and water polo matches at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24535
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 25, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Fires
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
24725AN
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Newspaper Index
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Fitness scores are listed for Arcadia school children and other area schools. Unhealthy diets cause concern.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25132
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2003
Pages
p. A1, A14
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2003
Pages
p. A1, A14
Subjects
Schools
Fitness
Item ID
25327AN
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Newspaper Index
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Student dropout numbers are mixed in the area schools. Arcadia had a higher percentage of graduating seniors than the county and state as a whole.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25432
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School Dropout rate
Item ID
25631AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Apache Pit, a new after-school teen center in the heart of the Arcadia High School campus, is funded and operated by the school district and Arcadia's Youth Services Coordinating Council. The project opened in mid-October.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24773
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2002
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Apache Pit
Item ID
24967AN
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Newspaper Index
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Senior German Bravo at Arcadia High School leads the boys' soccer team to success.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24883
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2003 p. C2
Pages
p. C2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2003 p. C2
Pages
p. C2
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Bravo, German
Item ID
25079AN
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Newspaper Index
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A profile of the Arcadia High School's girls soccer team and their winning season.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24976
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2003
Pages
p. C1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 28, 2003
Pages
p. C1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Sports - Soccer
Item ID
25173AN
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Newspaper Index
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2003 Academic Performance Index rankings for Arcadia and other area schools show most schools made improvements or held their ground.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27838
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2004
Pages
p. 1 & 2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2004
Pages
p. 1 & 2
Subjects
Schools-Test Scores
Item ID
28035AN
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Newspaper Index
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STAR scores are up in most area schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2003
Pages
"p. A1, A5"
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2003
Pages
"p. A1, A5"
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
26363AN
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Newspaper Index
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Due to errors in the data, the state Department of Education has pulled from its WEB site the list of schools subject to federal monitoring that were based on STAR scores. Arcadia district officials have discovered some anomalies in the data.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26168
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
26368AN
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Newspaper Index
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Fewer than half of the high school students statewide scheduled to graduate in 2004 have passed both the English language arts and mathematics portions of the California High School Exit Exam. Arcadia High School sophomores who took the test last year had the strongest showing in the local area with 89% of the 738 students tested passing math and 88% passing English.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24596
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
California High School Exit Exam
Item ID
24787AN
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Newspaper Index
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A report on fiscal year spending at area school districts shows South Pasadena Unified and La Canada Unified spend the smallest proportion of their general fund budgets on central administrative costs. Arcadia Unified and Temple City Unified spend the largest percentage of their budgets on teacher salaries.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29746
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 23, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 23, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
School districts
Budgets
Schools - San Gabriel Valley
Item ID
29931AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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First Avenue Middle School celebrated the life of one of its teachers, 25-year-old Jennifer Castillo, who died unexpectedly earlier this month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25135
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 20, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 20, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - First Avenue Middle School
Castillo, Jennifer
Item ID
25330AN
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Newspaper Index
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