Arcadia High School students took first place for the second year in a row in the regional competition of the National Bicentennial Competition on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The Arcadia High School advanced placement government class defeated 13 other state teams in the "We the People" Bill of Rights and Constitution competition in Sacramento. The 29 member team will represent California in the national competition May 1-3 in Washington, D.C.
A team of 6th graders from Camino Grove Elementary School received fall '92 grand prize honors in the final round of Kidquiz, a scholastic competition on KCBS-TV (Ch. 2).
The Arcadia Unified School Board discussed the possible reconfiguration of the district's grade levels in hopes of dealing with overcrowding at the junior high level. Most of the public that asked to address the issue spoke out against it.
Police arrested eleven Asian-American high school students, nine of whom were Arcadia High School students, after a 2-month investigation of extortion and terrorist threats by suspected gang members against junior high school students.
The Arcadia Rotary Club awarded small grants to 21 Arcadia Unified School District teachers in a program designed to augment existing school curricula with specially funded projects.
Patricia Ann "Pann" Baltz, one of 5 California Teachers of the year, was honored at the Arcadia Community Center by city and school district officials.
The Arcadia Unified School District will again offer free music classes to elementary school intermediate music students. A proposal by John Waltrip's to provide a fee-based program failed when not enough students signed up.
Arcadia Unified School District seniors ranked third in the state for the number of advanced placement (AP) exams passed per 100 students during 1991-92.
Former two-term Arcadia Board of Education member and longtime Arcadia resident Robert E. Kladifko was recently named California School Administrator of the year in the high school principal category by the Association of California School Administrators.
Patricia Ann Baltz, chosen in September as the Arcadia Unified School District's teacher of the year, advanced to become one of California's five teachers to garner the honor at the State level.
George Stapleton, 62, an Arcadia High School chemistry teacher, has received repeated, anonymous threats that school officials believe are attempts to intimidate him into relaxing his grading policies.