By
André Coleman -- Pasadena Weekly
Education
activists have begun circulating petitions for the formation
of an Altadena Unified School District.
Maurice
Morse, Shirlee Smith and Bruce Wasson contacted LA County
officials in January to start the process of letting Altadena
voters decide whether the community should break away form
the embattled Pasadena Unified School District. The district
angered many Altadenans when it decided to close four elementary
schools, two of them located in Altadena, due to a more than
$6 million deficit.
Morse,
Smith and Wasson received official petitions Tuesday that,
if signed by 25 percent of registered Altadena voters, would
lead to a ballot measure on succession from the PUSD.
If
that measure is eventually drafted and approved, nine schools
and some 4,000 students would then compose an independent
Altadena Unified School District.
