Photos of kids (and parents!) needed for PEN website makeover! Click here to enter PEN's photo contest!
The first day of classes for the 2010-11 school year is September 14, 2010. Click here for the 2010-11 PUSD Calendar. (Scroll to p.2 for month-by-month listing of key dates.)
PEN is an independent non-profit parent organization that helps families explore public schools by connecting parents with:
- Factual information
- Tools to evaluate information
- Schools
- Resources
- Other parents!
New to PEN?
Once you've created your PEN membership, you will begin receiving PEN News, a weekly e-bulletin with the week's events, tours, coffees, enrollment updates, and links to timely information for current and prospective PUSD families.
PEN members: our Subscriber Resource Library is up and running!
View and print updated elementary and middle school fact sheets, transcripts from PEN education programs, and more...
Log in and start (or renew) your 2010-11 subscription TODAY!
Click here to learn more about our subscriber benefits...
Check back in August 2010 for a list of Fall 2010 PEN Programs - including programs for families exploring their elementary school options and programs for families looking at middle schools too!
Are you weighing the cost of private school tuition and wondering what the public schools have to offer?
"PEN helped me find a terrific school for my son"
"In fact, it helped me find several! And now that we're in a school, PEN continues to be an invaluable resource. PEN helped me become part of one of the most important communities my family will ever belong to." - PEN Parent Jodie Lee, with son Sammy
Have you heard people say that public schools are not an option in Pasadena, Altadena, or Sierra Madre?
"I didn't think public schools were an option here"
"My husband went to public schools, but I grew up attending private schools – and I didn't think public was a viable option here in Pasadena. PEN let us see what PUSD schools were really like, introduced us to other families in similar circumstances, and helped us figure out Open Enrollment. PEN helped us find the right school for our whole family!" - PEN Parent Liz Sanchez Jackson with sons Miles and Cole
Before you decide where to educate your children, educate yourself!
"We are so grateful to PEN!"
"Before PEN, we thought that PUSD schools were not an option... Now they are our first option. We are so grateful to PEN for taking the stress out of choosing an elementary school.”" - The Griffith family
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