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Teachers, parents and students press Pasadena board over cuts, charter renewal and arsenic at San Rafael field
Summary
Community speakers including principals, teachers, union leaders and elementary students urged trustees to protect school programs amid proposed cuts, argued for reconsidering MTSS consolidations, urged the board to approve Odyssey Charter South's renewal, and demanded answers about arsenic testing at San Rafael's soccer field.
A steady stream of public commenters used the board’s three-minute public-comment periods to urge trustees to reconsider cuts to school supports, endorse charter renewal requests and demand clarity around environmental testing at school fields.
Odyssey South leaders — including Principal Bonnie Brimaccom and assistant principal Don Wrangle — presented the charter-renewal case, citing steady academic growth, social-emotional programming and enrollment resilience despite relocations prompted by the Eaton Fire. Relle Martinez (interim executive director of OCS South)…
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