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PASADENA - When the gun blows to signal the start of the Pasadena Marathon on Sunday, runners won't be the only people breaking a sweat and racing against the clock.
More than 200 students from Blair International Baccalaureate Magnet School in Pasadena will staff everything from the race information center to the water station that will keep the racers hydrated.
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PASADENA - Blair International Baccalaureate Magnet School has qualified for the 2011 California Distinguished School Award, according to district officials.
The award honors schools that have demonstrated educational excellence for all students and progress in narrowing the achievement gap.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Police locked down a school and searched students Friday after a report that a person was walking on campus with a handgun, but no weapon was found, officials said. One youth was arrested.
SWAT teams were sent to Blair International Baccalaureate School shortly before 9:30 a.m. after a faculty member reported that someone on campus had seen a man with a handgun, police Lt. Tom Pederson said.
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PASADENA -- Charges were filed today against a 17-year-old boy arrested in connection with a gun scare at Blair International Baccalaureate Magnet School Friday.
He is facing one felony count of making a terrorist threat with use of a gun, one felony count of being a minor in possession of a handgun and one misdemeanor count of possession of live ammunition by a minor, officials from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
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PASADENA - A teenage boy arrested Friday after a report that someone had been seen with a gun on the Blair International Baccalaureate Magnet School campus is in custody at Juvenile Hall, Pasadena police Lt. Keith Jones said Saturday.
Jones said Pasadena detectives will present a report to the District Attorney's Office on Monday and a decision will be made whether to file charges.
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The current generation of kindergartners to 12th graders -- those born between 1991 and 2004 -- has no memory of a time before Google. But although these students are far more tech savvy than their parents and are perpetually connected to the Internet, they know a lot less than they think. And worse, they don't know what they don't know.
As a librarian in the Pasadena, Calif., Unified School District, I teach students research skills. But I've just been pink-slipped, along with five other middle school and high school librarians, and only a parcel tax on the city's May ballot can save the district's libraries. Closing libraries is always a bad idea, but for the Google generation, it could be disastrous. In a time when information literacy is increasingly crucial to life and work, not te...
...Sara Scribner is a librarian at Blair International Baccalaureate School, a public middl...
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... students from Pasadena-based Blair International Baccalaureate School attended the performance of W...
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In Mr. Loew's letter, "Too many hoops" (Feb.22), he raised several concerns about the Pasadena Solar Initiative Program.
The Pasadena Solar Initiative (PSI) offers one of the highest rebate
...Scott Tucker. San Gabriel. New school a waste. It is amazing to me that the Pasadena Uni... commit to build a new middle school on the Blair International Baccalaureate Magnet School campus i...
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On Sunday, November 16, 2008 at noon, the Altadena National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrated at its 20th Annual Freedom Fundraiser Luncheon "The Stars of Education.
There was however a copy at the "whites only" library branch. So she took herself to the "whites only" branch where she found the book she was looking for.
In response, Ms. [Stewart] fashioned a sign on a stick and proceeded to demonstrate in front of the "whites only" library about the "unfair policy."
The awardees were as follows: * Daarina Abdus-Samad, Norma Coombs Alternative; * Dan Beam, San Rafael Elementary; * Linda Been, Burbank Elementary; * Damon Bonds, Washington Accelerated Elementary; * Cynthia Burkhardt, Wilson IB Middle; * Roland Bynum, John Muir High; * Arturo Calvo, Franklin Elem...
...-nine teachers from the Pasadena Unified School District for excellence. The gala event attended b...* Irisann Robinson, Willard International Baccalaureate Magnet;. * Robert Sortino, Cleveland...* Kjeu Voong, Blair IB Magnet;. * Harriet Watts, Daniel Webster;. * Ro...
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DUARTE - The fifth annual San Gabriel Valley HIV/AIDS Summit, hosted by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-Pasadena, at City of Hope on Wednesday, attracted about 225 participants, almost double last year's number.
To close the event, a panel designed to provide a youth perspective on the disease and its sociological dimensions focused on education, prevention and advocacy for a new generation.
... to an audience of local students - from Blair High School's International Baccalaureate health p...