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The Arcadia Unified School District is taking a "zero tolerance" position against violence and drugs in the schools. Anyone caught assaulting another student, bringing a weapon to school, or using or selling drugs on campus will be expelled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4507
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
4383AN
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Newspaper Index
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Sound cards were missing from four computers in an Arcadia High School classroom. School officials suspect they were stolen by students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6071
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 1996
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 1996
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
5904AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School opened the school year with an added 800 9th grade students, bringing total enrollment to 3050. 50% of the students are new to the school.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4227
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 15, 1994
Pages
p. H-2 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 15, 1994
Pages
p. H-2 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
4103AN
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Newspaper Index
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Starting in 1993-1994, Arcadia High School will change its grading policy that awards an extra grade point to students taking honors classes. The new system will give no more weight to honors courses than to regular courses.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper218
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
218AN
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Many Arcadia High School students are unhappy with the quality of the photos in the 1998 AHS yearbook, taking away some of the thunder from the school's first interactive CD-ROM yearbook.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper14217
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 12, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
14793AN
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The new J Building and Music Building are ready at Arcadia High School, made possible by passage of the $28 million bond issue in April, 1993. The new facilities include the Library Technology Center, the new nurse's office, Associated Student Body Office and the Trading Post student store.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4413
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 1994
Pages
p. H-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 20, 1994
Pages
p. H-3 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
4289AN
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Newspaper Index
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Students at Holly Avenue Elementary School can choose the traditional September-June schedule or attend year-round classes with 4 shorter breaks, instead of the three-month summer vacation. The new schedule has the usual 180 days, but includes 4 sessions of about 9 weeks and breaks as long as 20 days.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4495
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 2, 1995
Pages
p. H2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 2, 1995
Pages
p. H2
Subjects
Schools - Holly Avenue Elementary School
Item ID
4371AN
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Newspaper Index
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Annual school dropout rates for grades 9 to 12 are shown by school district. Dates included are 91/92, 92/93, and 93/94.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4839
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 1995
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 14, 1995
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
4715AN
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About 40 Arcadia High School students showed up outside City Hall at 3:15 to demonstrate against the city's 50 year old curfew, which subjects those under 18 to a misdemeanor citation if they loiter in public after 10 PM.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9726
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Item ID
9680AN
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The City Council increased the bed tax, charged to customers staying in a hotel, from 8% to 10%. The increase will generate an estimated $140,000 a year, which would help to close the city's projected $2.2 million shortfall in the 1993-94 budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper214
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Hotels, Motels, etc.
Item ID
214AN
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City officials expect a $764,000 shortfall for the fiscal year ending in June and nearly $1.7 million shortfall for 1997-98.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8750
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
8706AN
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Newspaper Index
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Next fall, students who want to use a computer in the Arcadia Unified School District will be required to sign a contract outlining student responsibility before being allowed access to the Internet.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6056
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 1996
Pages
p. A-1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 26, 1996
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
5889AN
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For the second time in three years, science students from Arcadia High School took the top prize Saturday in the county regional competition of the National Science Bowl.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9174
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 1997
Pages
p. A1 photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 1997
Pages
p. A1 photos
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Item ID
9128AN
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Arcadia, Alhambra, Monrovia, Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, San Marino and Temple City public schools all showed improvement on California state API testing that measures English and math performance. Duarte Unified showed a drop from the previous year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32510
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 1, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Academic Performance Index (API)
Arcadia Schools
Test Scores
Item ID
32709AN
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Newspaper Index
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More than 1.1 million people came to Santa Anita Park this season, which began on December 26, down slightly from the 1993-94 season.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4543
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 25, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 25, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park, 1991 - 2000
Item ID
4419AN
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Newspaper Index
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About 300 students in kindergarten through 5th grade will attend new schools in September because the school board unanimously approved changes in school attendance boundaries.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper981
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1993
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p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 16, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
981AN
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Private schools pay annual rent for classrooms at two area public schools. There is a controversy over the use or misuse of classrooms by these students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper5640
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 1995
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 21, 1995
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools
Item ID
5491AN
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Newspaper Index
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Joshua Martin Parra-Davis, 23, of Arcadia, pleaded not guilty in Pasadena Superior Court, to charges of possessing and leaving an explosive device in a backpack near a bank on Foothill Boulevard in Arcadia, on Friday, January 14, 2011. He is charged with four felony counts, including possession of a destructive device near a school. Parra-Davis, a former Foothills Middle School student, was seen opening a classroom door last Friday and then later was seen dropping the backpack into some bushes. The bag contained what appeared to be a homemade explosive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32301
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bombs
Crime and Criminals
Parra-Davis, Joshua Martin
Item ID
32500AN
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2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) scores show a majority of area schools are progressing. California's STAR program assesses public school students' knowledge of the math, English and science in grades 2 through 11. At Arcadia Unified School District, these are the percentage of students who scored proficient or advanced in core subjects: English-Language Arts 83.9%; History 76%; Mathematics 82.4%; Science 84.7%; Science end of course 80.4%. STAR scores from other area schools are given.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32499
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
Test Scores
Item ID
32698AN
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Newspaper Index
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Thirty-seven portable classrooms-or nearly half the campus - are being used to house students at Arcadia High School while the school undergoes and $8.5 million renovation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper7321
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 1996
Pages
p. A1 photos
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 1996
Pages
p. A1 photos
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
7210AN
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Newspaper Index
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