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On the Town: PTA and Booster Club partner for fall fun
With fall officially in full swing, members of the Parent Teachers Assn. and Booster Club of Burbank's Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School welcomed the season with their annual Fall Festival Picnic fundraiser last week. Transforming the grounds of the...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, PTA, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Theater
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Burbank Unified improves its API standing
Burbank Unified improved its overall score on the all-important state index that measures student achievement, according to data released Wednesday. The district’s overall score on the Academic Performance Index improved by 13 points to 846 —...Tags: School Examinations, Students
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Burbank's super Hooper
Katie Hooper has produced an impressive track record at Burbank High over the course of the last four years. When a team has Hooper on its roster, success seems assured. During her freshman and sophomore seasons, Hooper was the starting goalkeeper for...
Tags: Soccer, Sarah Brown, Softball, College Sports, Sports
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Schools adjust menus for health
As new federal laws mandate more fruits and vegetables in school lunches, cafeterias in Glendale and Burbank are making adjustments to their menus. The transition, they say, has been fairly smooth. Two years after the Healthy, Hunger-Free Eating Kids...
Tags: Students
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Green Party candidate: 'It's time to bail out the students'
Offering what she called a “green New Deal,” Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein delivered a speech Thursday at Woodbury University in Burbank that focused on jobs, education and the economy. While President Franklin D....
Tags: Small Businesses, Business, Republican Party, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Burbank school celebrates Literature Week with a reading marathon
Parents, community members and school district officials descended on Providencia Elementary to read books to students for more than an hour Friday morning. The 20th annual tradition brought nearly 60 volunteers to the campus to read to students in...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Students
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Burbank teachers get anti-bullying training
Students snickering at their gay classmates. Others picking on students with special needs. Shoving. Racially charged jokes. One by one, teachers at an anti-bullying training session in Burbank this week raised their hands to relay stories of their own...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at School, Teachers, Students
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San Fernando Valley roundup: Burbank teachers participate in anti-bullying training, L.A. Dept. of Water and Power approves rate increase
Good morning, readers. Today is Monday, September 17. Teachers in Burbank learned that bullying is more than just “kids being kids.” The California Teachers Assn. hosted the first district-wide, anti-bullying training for Burbank Unified...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Health and Safety at School, Teachers
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AP classes about more than scores
Even if not every student passed the Advanced Placement exam, merely being exposed to the more rigorous course work leading up to the exam makes students stronger in the long run, Burbank Unified officials say. “The rigor is there. It gets them to...Tags: Students
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Paramo is just a kid at heart
One reason John Paramo — the new principal at John Burroughs High School — feels he can understand teenagers is because he considers himself a child at heart. “Most parents say, ‘How can you deal with teenagers?' For me, it's a...
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District sees gains in test scores
The Burbank Unified School District saw significant gains in standardized test scores when results were released Friday. The state’s Standards Testing and Reporting (STAR) program evaluates student comprehension of English, math, science and...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Science and Technology, School Examinations, Students
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Burbank Unified improves high school exit exam scores
State education officials this week released data showing that 94% of high school sophomores in Burbank Unified last year passed the English test needed to graduate, while 93% passed the math portion of the test. The figures represent the results of...
Tags: Science and Technology, High Schools, Education, Students, Schools
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