{"id":25815,"date":"2023-06-16T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:22:44","slug":"show-mcdonalds-some-respect-pasadena-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25815","title":{"rendered":"Show McDonald&#8217;s some respect &#8211; Pasadena Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline-author\">By ANDR\u00c9 COLEMAN, MANAGING EDITOR <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Posted on Friday, June 16, 2023 |  5:05 a.m<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-facebook\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-twitter\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-envelope\" onclick=\"window.location.href=\" https:=\"\" decodeuricomponent=\"\" gumbo:=\"\" show=\"\" mcdonald=\"\" some=\"\" respect=\"\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-print\">[print-me target=&#8221;#content&#8221;]<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"fa fa-bookmark\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=times_process_times_vote&#038;nonce=4f6aa92d63&#038;post_id=527798&#038;disabled=true&#038;is_comment=false\" class=\"tvote-button tvote-button-527798\" data-nonce=\"4f6aa92d63\" data-post-id=\"527798\" data-iscomment=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span class=\"tvote-count\">4<\/span> recommended<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/themes\/times\/img\/share-big.svg\" alt=\"feedback icon\" class=\"svg-inject share-icon\" title=\"\"><span>To share<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-527799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1-100x54.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1-241x130.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1-333x180.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Political-Gumbo-400px-1-360x194.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width:1200px) 400px, (min-width:1200px) and (min-aspect-ratio:2) 400px, (min-width:960px) 400px, (min-width:960px) and (min-aspect-ratio:2) 400px, (min-width:720px) 400px, (min-width:720px) and (min-aspect-ratio:2) 400px, (min-width:600px) 400px, (min-width:600px) and (min-aspect-ratio:2) 400px, (min-width:320px) 340px, (min-width:320px) and (min-aspect-ratio:2) 400px, (min-aspect-ratio:2) 200vw, 100vw\" title=\"\">Brian McDonald is the longest tenured PUSD superintendent in recent history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last three superintendents, Percy Clark, Edwin Diaz and Jon Gundry, served a combined 12 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you count McDonald&#8217;s time as interim superintendent, he&#8217;s been in the position for nine years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For nine years, McDonald has done his part as enrollment declined, in part because of rising housing costs, which forced more families east to the Inland Empire, where a family can still buy a house, and the reduction of families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But unfortunately, the man who guided the district through the pandemic and worked with the city to pass I and J, which brings millions of dollars to the district annually, will be leaving the district on June 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Either way, McDonald deserves to be kicked out of the district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, so far nothing is scheduled. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surely the Pasadena Education Foundation (PEF) or the Pasadena Education Network (PEN) or any of our local nonprofits that support education, that means they&#8217;re all interested in sending McDonald&#8217;s the way correct <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give the man his due. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Brian, Thank you for working hard to educate the children of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mail-icon.png\n\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">    Get our daily Pasadena newspaper delivered to your email inbox.  Free.<\/h3>\n<p>Get all the latest news from Pasadena, 10+ new stories daily, 7 days a week at 7am<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasadenanow.com\/main\/political-gumbo-show-mcdonald-some-respect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ANDR\u00c9 COLEMAN, MANAGING EDITOR Posted on Friday, June 16, 2023 | 5:05 a.m [print-me target=&#8221;#content&#8221;] 4 recommendedTo share Brian McDonald is the longest tenured PUSD superintendent in recent history. The last three superintendents, Percy Clark, Edwin Diaz and Jon Gundry, served a combined 12 years. If you count McDonald&#8217;s time as interim superintendent, he&#8217;s been in the position for nine years. For nine years, McDonald has done his part as enrollment declined, in part because of rising housing costs, which forced more families east to the Inland Empire, where a family can still buy a house, and the reduction&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25817,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25815\/revisions\/25817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}