PASADENA : Parents Urged to Attend ‘Educational Summit’
Concerned about dwindling government monies for public schools, the Pasadena Educational Foundation on Wednesday launched a drive to raise $1.5 million for city schools and urged residents to attend an “Educational Summit” Thursday evening to discuss how the system might be improved.
Former California Atty. Gen. John Van De Kamp will chair the drive.
The districtwide summit wast to bring together school officials, civic leaders, parents and teachers for a two-hour teleconference on the future of the school system.
Vera Vignes, superintendent of the 21,756-student Pasadena Unified School District, was to address audiences at 11 sites in Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre via television hookups from the district’s Education Center, beginning at 7 p.m.
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