Pasadena Schools Closed; What Parents Need to Know

Starting Monday, March 16, all Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) schools and programs will be dismissed, with no students on campus, through Friday, April 3. Classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, April 6.

Teachers, administrators, and allother staff are reporting to their assigned work location to prepare for remotelearning and to continue to support students and their families.

Starting March 17, the PUSD Food& Nutrition Services program will provide an opportunity for families todrive through and pick up breakfast and lunch meals for the day for children intheir family, ages 18 and younger, at a number of school sites including thefollowing:

• Eliot MiddleSchool.
• FieldElementary.
• MadisonElementary.
• McKinley.
• Muir HighSchool.
• Norma CoombsElementary.
• WilsonMiddle School.

Meals will be served between 9-11a.m., Monday through Friday, in the parking lot or bus lane at eachparticipating school. Stay in your car and meals will be passed through basedon the number of children in the car.

No meals will be provided duringSpring Break (March 30 – April 3). Find more details regarding fooddistribution at pusd.us.

PUSD asks that families continueto be proactive in reducing the risk of COVID-19 by not congregating at theschool site once meals have been distributed, continue to wash hands often,sneeze or cough into a tissue and stay home if you are sick.

PUSD will provide reinforcement of learning remotely for all students, including students with disabilities using PowerSchool. They will have access to materials at gopusd.com/remote by March 16; login using your children’s PUSD student account. K-12 students went home with Chromebooks and chargers on Friday. K-5 students who need Chromebooks or chargers can pick them up from their elementary schools on Monday. 

If distance learning is necessarybeyond April 3, the PUSD will update parents as the situation evolves.

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