Supervisor
lays out issues in letter to Clark
By
André Coleman -- Pasadena Weekly
LA
County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is siding with residents
who oppose plans by Pasadena Unified School District officials
to transfer students from the Rose City High School continuation
school to the recently shuttered Noyes Elementary School in
Altadena.
Antonovich
expressed his support for opponents of the plan in an April
10 letter to PUSD Percy Clark.
In
the letter, Antonovich also criticized the makeup of a committee
studying the restructuring of the school district, which includes
only one member from Altadena. Along with Noyes, the district
has closed three other schools, another one in Altadena, in
order to close a $6.5 million gap in the district’s
operating budget.
“The
residential character of the area surrounding Noyes Elementary
School is not appropriate for an alternative school such as
Rose City,” Antonovich wrote to Clark. “I share
the Altadena community’s concerns with this potential
transfer.”
Along
with Clark, the letter was also sent to Eva Lueck, superintendent
of business operations for PUSD, and Ken Balder, chairman
of the Altadena Town Council.
The
PUSD Board of Education voted to shutter Noyes and Edison,
both located in Altadena, and Allendale and Linda Vista schools
in December, prompting calls to have Altadena break off from
PUSD and form its own district.
Secession
signature petitions have been circulating around Altadena
since mid-March.
