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Backed by an appeals court decision allowing school districts to charge parents for student busing, the Arcadia school board decided Monday to reinstitute a fee-based transportation program for the coming year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2640
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1991
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 30, 1991
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p. A-2
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2578AN
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A request from a group of parents that the play "Secrets", dealing with AIDS and birth control, be cancelled at Foothills Junior High has been unanimously denied by the Arcadia Board of Education. Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and performed throughout the state, the play was requested by parents at the junior high level after it was shown last year at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3174
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3085AN
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A group of parents plans to ask the school board to cancel the performance of the play "Secrets" at Foothill Junior High since it addresses the issues of AIDS and birth control without, as they see it, meeting state education guidelines because it does not stress abstinence from intercourse as an alternative.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3173
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
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p. A-1
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Schools - Race Relations
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3084AN
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First of 2 articles about the increasing Asian student population in the Arcadia Unified School District, where over the past 10 years the Asian student population has grown from 9 to 39%. This article focuses on meeting the challenge of getting Asian parents involved.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2695
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 16, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Asian Students
Item ID
2631AN
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Following an unexpected influx of students in the first, fourth and sixth grades this year in the Arcadia Unified School District, some of the first grade students have been attending classes with kindergarteners, prompting about 65 Highland Oaks Elementary School parents to meet with district officials.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2984
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Enrollment
Item ID
2910AN
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Following an unexpected influx of students in the first, fourth and sixth grades this year in the Arcadia Unified School District, some of the first grade students have been attending classes with kindergartners, prompting about 65 Highland Oaks Elementary School parents to meet with district officials.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28921
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1
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Schools - Enrollment
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2910AN
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Climaxing a 16-month battle, the state Board of Education in Sacramento voted 9-0 to deny a petition by a group of Sierra Madre parents to have the city join the Arcadia Unified School District.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2177
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Unified School District
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2155AN
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Arcadia police arrested two Arcadia High School students 16, and 15, in connection with a December 11 racial incident in which a cross was burned and anti-Asian epithets were scrawled on the front yard of a home in the 200 block of Arbolada Drive. The two boys were booked for damaging property based on ethnic origin and were released to the custody of their parents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1396
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 10, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1395AN
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Some Sierra Madre parents want to split from the Pasadena Unified School District and join the Arcadia Unified School District because of Arcadia's high-ranking CAP scores and low dropout rate. Members of Arcadia's Board of Education question whether they could handle the influx of new students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2173
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 23, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 23, 1989
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p. A-1
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Pasadena Unified School District
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2151AN
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Parents express their dissatisfaction with the school district's new busing policy.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1989
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p. A-1
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School Children - Transportation
Item ID
2576AN
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The Board of Education decided to keep its current school busing program in effect after reviewing parental complaints that the system was unfair.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2636
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 12, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
School Children - Transportation
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2575AN
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Darren Williams saved his family's two-story home from going up in flames when he advised his flustered parents to use the fire extinguisher.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3625
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 8, 1989
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Williams, Darren
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3500AN
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At a meeting of about 200 Anoakia School parents, directors of the school, which has operated on the former estate of Anita Baldwin for 48 years, explained the reasons the school wants to relocate after June 1990. Lowry McCaslin, who owns the property, wants to develop the 20 acre estate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3141
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 22, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 22, 1989
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools, Private - Anoakia School
Item ID
3055AN
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Arcadia Police, alerted that a home was being burglarized, wound up confiscating 23 kilos of cocaine valued at $500.000 and arresting two men on suspicion of drug trafficking.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1478
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 25, 1988
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 25, 1988
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p. A-2
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1477AN
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Discussion of Parent Alert's activities including their 24-hour hotline (574-0600). The group, with 500-600 members, has been active for 10 years. REACH (Responsible Educated Adolescents Can Help) is an arm of the organization which is primarily concerned with drug and alcohol abuse among young people.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2129
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 11, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 11, 1988
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p. A-1
Subjects
Parent Alert
Item ID
2112AN
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The Korean Parents Association, officially formed six months ago, now has 235 members. The group recently distributed its first newsletter.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1895
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1988
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1988
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p. A-2
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Korean Parents Association
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1894AN
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The design of Arcadia's float for the 1989 Tournament of Roses parade is drawing criticism from parents who object to the champagne glasses. They feel the float promotes partying with alcohol.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3493
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 19, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 19, 1988
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p. A-1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3379AN
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A group of Arcadia parents have quietly formed and organization to try to reduce teenage alcohol and drug abuse. Still in its formative stages, the yet-unnamed group has proposed serving as chaperones at teen functions, distributing a "caution statement" to local liquor stores, and to establish drug and alcohol-free contracts between parents and teens.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1456
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1987
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 8, 1987
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p. A-2
Subjects
Drug Abuse
Item ID
1455AN
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A recent meeting between Asian parents, police and school district members was quite successful, School Board Member Robert Kladifko told the Board. He said recent fights between Asians and Caucasians at the Arcadia High School and the Arcadia Library were not racially motivated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3171
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 14, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 14, 1986
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3082AN
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About 150 Asian parents told city and school officials at a meeting that they are troubled by two fights at Arcadia High School between Asians and Caucasians.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3170
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 7, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 7, 1986
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3081AN
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