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Test scores of Arcadia Unified School District's seniors rose this year. The reading score was 294 (up 19 points) while math score was 333 (up 20 points). Since 1987-88, students moved from the 77th to the 85th percentile in reading and from the 89th to the 96th percentile in math statewide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3220
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
3128AN
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Newspaper Index
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The new CAS (2) program, an acronym for Curriculum Alignment System and Comprehensive Assessment System, will replace the California Assessment Program (CAP), the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS), and the District Minimum Proficiency Tests. CAS (2) testing will begin in November for high school seniors, with all other grades to take the test in the spring. Advantages of the new test are given in the article.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 21, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
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3129AN
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Newspaper Index
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Area Advanced Placement test scores show improvement.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 17, 1991
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p. B-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 17, 1991
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p. B-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
3132AN
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Newspaper Index
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The 49-year-old Anoakia School, facing a June deadline for relocation, has opted for local print advertising. Owner Lowry McCaslin apparently wants to develop the property at Foothill Blvd. and Baldwin Ave. However, the school also has numerous city fire code violations and a building that is not up to seismic standards. The school currently has 279 students from K-8th grade.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3142
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1990
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p. A-1
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Schools, Private - Anoakia School
Item ID
3056AN
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The 9-person team of Arcadia High School placed 3rd out of 73 teams in the county's 41st annual Academic Decathlon, thus performing the best ever in Arcadia High School history. The decathlon consists of speech, math, science, fine arts, social science/history, economics, language, literature and essay competitions.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3079
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 2, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 2, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
3001AN
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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
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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.

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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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Genevieve Perchlak, 63, a survivor of a Nazi labor camp, speaks to eighth graders at Foothills Junior High School every year when they are reading "The Diary of Anne Frank."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2183
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 17, 1991
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 17, 1991
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p. A-1 photo
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Perchlak, Genevieve
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2160AN
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Steven Wu of Arcadia was convicted on all 35 charges that he raped his unconscious sisters-in-law while capturing the events on videotape.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1398
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1991
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 18, 1991
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Wu, Steven
Item ID
1397AN
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Newly chosen members of the Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association Royal Court of 1990-91 are: Maria Isabel Algara, 17; Bonnie Burkhalter, 17; Melissa Kaliel, 16; Danielle Kennedy, 17 all of Arcadia High School. Also Krysty Keuhfuss, 17, of Alverno High School.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3389AN
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The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded grants totaling $4,990 to 17 teachers at the February 13 Arcadia Board of Education meeting. Grants ranging from $175 to $300 were given to individual teachers to help with special classroom projects. The teachers represented 5 of the 6 Arcadia elementary schools, all 3 junior high schools and both Arcadia and Huntington high schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2113
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Organizations - Rotary Club
Item ID
2098AN
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Rebecca Switzer, a math instructor at Arcadia High School, was one of 10 Los Angeles County teachers selected as a finalist in the Jaime Escalante Mathematics Teacher Awards program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2955
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 21, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees - Switzer, Rebecca
Item ID
2882AN
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The City Council approved a mandatory water conservation program that requires a 10% decrease in water use by all residents, as well as the use of penalties if residents use more than their share of water.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3590
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 10, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 10, 1991
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p. A-1
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Water
Item ID
3469AN
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Joseph I, 15, a 9th-grader at Foothills Junior High School has been named one of 15 semifinalists in the instrumental music category for the Music Center's Second Annual Spotlight Award. The Spotlight Award Ceremony and Dinner will be held March 5 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Mr. I has also been invited to attend master classes given by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1867
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 17, 1990
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p. A-1 photo
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I, Joseph
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1866AN
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Gerry Woods, who is in the process of recovering from an almost fatal gunshot wound to the head last year, went in a wheel chair to receive his certificate of graduation from Foothills Junior High School.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1992
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p. A-1
Subjects
Woods, Gerald Jr.
Item ID
81AN
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Arcadia police are using SMART, or Speed Monitoring Awareness Radar Trailer, to educate residents into "voluntary compliance" with posted speeds. Placed at various locations, the trailers have a changeable sign for legal speed limits and an electronic readout of the actual speed of each car that whizzes by. The device can read speeds from about 1/4 mile away.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 29, 1990
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Traffic Regulations
Item ID
3417AN
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The Arcadia Police Dept. will receive $1,227,823 of a total of $12 million for its part in the largest drug bust in history at a Sylmar warehouse last September. The money will be used to step up drug enforcement, as well as for community programs in drug prevention and awareness. The undercover work was by officer Dean Caputo.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1480AN
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The start of the school year will bring cable TV to the Arcadia Unified School District, which is hooking up to the nationwide Cable in the Classroom program.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 18, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 18, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools
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2629AN
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The recently released statewide Advanced Placement figures show that in Arcadia, the number of exams passed per 100 seniors has grown from 24.2 students in 1984 to 80.9 students in 1990.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3223
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 5, 1991
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 5, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Test Scores
Item ID
3131AN
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Plaza de las Fiestas, a new multipurpose arena in the northwest quadrant of the infield at the Santa Anita Park, has been created to accommodate Family Faire weekend outings for groups of 25 or more, as well as company picnics, concerts, trade shows, equine shows and other special occasions that can share the day with racing.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1990
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 3, 1990
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p. A-1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990
Item ID
2438AN
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