The school board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a framework for change concerning grades. The details of the district's grading standards will be worked out over the coming months.
A divided school board voted 3-2 Tuesday to allow Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" to be used in an Arcadia High School English class, despite complaints the book is too sexually explicit.
Incumbent Maryann Gibson took an early lead last night in the race for three seats on the Arcadia Unified School District Board. Michael Lamb and John R. McClain also won seats. Min Mey Chang and John T. Wuo lost.
Campus safety and tight funding rank among the issues of greatest concern to the five candidates seeking three open seats on the Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education.
James Romo, an education attorney and school district volunteer, has been selected to fill the vacant seat on the Arcadia School board. He will replace Michael Lamb, who resigned from the board last month.
Incumbents Maryann Gibson and Michael O. Lamb were re-elected to the Arcadia Unified School District board. They were joined by first-time candidate John McClain.
According to final campaign contribution statements for the April 18 school board election, the candidates who raised the most money got the least number of votes. Results are analyzed.
15 Arcadia High School students beat out 19 other schools to win the county competition of the Science Olympiad. The state competition is set for April 9, followed by the national competition in Arizona.
Arcadia registered voters received the second in a series of mailings last week, urging them to vote in the $27.9 million bond election on April 20th. A similar bond measure failed by less than 1% in an election on September 15, 1992.