By Joe Piasecki
Pasadena Sun
Supporters of John Muir High School football coach Ken Howard, who now faces a misdemeanor battery charge for his role in a Sept. 28 scuffle with a student, are planning to gather Tuesday at a Pasadena school board meeting as part of a broader effort to address race and education.
Howard is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 1 on a charge of “battery on a school ground,” Pasadena City Prosecutor Connie Orozco said in an email Wednesday. If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail and fines up to $2,000.
Even before the charge was filed, attorney Joe Hopkins, who represents Howard, called for a “100-man march” on Pasadena Unified School District headquarters to address the board about gaps in standardized test performance between white students and their black and Latino peers.
NAACP Pasadena Branch President Joe Brown and former school board candidate Gene Stevenson, now an Altadena town councilman, are helping to organize the march.
