by Timothy Rutt
Thirty-eight candidates have thrown their name into the hat to fill the remaining two years of an atl-large board seat with the Pasadena Unified School District.
When Kim Kenne of Altadena recently won election to a new sub-district seat, she resigned her at-large seat (the district is switching to a representative-by-district system, rather than electing each member at large). PUSD advertised for candidates to fill the remaining two years of the at-large term. The winning candidate will be selected by the school board.
Among the candidates are several Altadenans: retiree Serafin Espinoza; Hermond D. Cooper, who ran against Kenne in the March election; Ioakin P. Boutakidis, a professor at CSU-Fulllerton; Cushon C. Bell, who ran against Renatta Cooper as a write-in candidate in 2011; and Hanna H. MacLaren, who lists her profession as "Educator-Community Partners, Los Angeles Coalition of Essential Schools."
Other notable candidates include other unsuccessful candidates in the last school board election. Besides Cooper, Guillermo Arce, Luis C. Ayala, Ruben Hueso, and Stella Murga also put in their applications. German Barrero ran for PUSD board in 2005.
Tony Brandenburg, a special education advocate and frequent guest blogger at the Sierra Madre Tattler, also submitted an application, as well as George A. Brumder, former president and current vice-president of the Pasadena Educational Foundation.
A full list of candidates is available here.
