News & Announcements

Good afternoon Monrovia families and friends,

We want you to know that we will not be distributing any meals to our community’s children on Friday, March 5, 2021, due to our All Staff In-Service, instead we will distribute a double breakfast, lunch, supper, and snack meal to all the children in our community on Thursday, March 4, 2021, 7:30 am – 11:30 am at all of our school sites.

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

Please join us tonight, March 2, 2021, @ 6 pm, for a Special Board of Education meeting to discuss the hybrid model of instruction proposed for the reopening of elementary schools.

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

I hope you were able to join us last night as our Elementary Task Force presented their recommended model for hybrid instruction. This collaborative and dedicated group of teachers, parents, support staff, and administrators investigated many models over the last couple of months and realized no single model would meet the disparate needs of our community. The proposed model presented last night is unique to the MUSD community.

Feb. 18, 2021

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

On Feb. 15, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that L.A. County had reached the threshold that allows elementary schools – TK-6 – to reopen for in-person instruction. As MUSD middle schools begin at grade 6, they are structurally different from elementary schools and are not included in the reopening plans at this time.

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

Last Friday, I shared updates about the criteria for the reopening of schools and information about vaccines. Much has happened over the last few days and that information needs to be updated yet again.

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have learned a great deal, and both national and international studies increasingly demonstrate the relatively low COVID-19 transmission rates in younger children. According to the latest "California Safe Schools for All" guidelines, elementary schools will be allowed to open much sooner than middle schools and high schools. For that reason, much of the work done to develop safe in-person instruction has been based at the elementary level.

Dear Monrovia Community,

Our Food Services department will not be distributing meals to our community’s children on Monday, February 15, 2021, due to the President's Day holiday, instead, we will distribute a double breakfast, lunch, supper, and snack meal to all the children in our community tomorrow, Friday, February 12, 2021, 7:30 am–11:30 am at all of our school sites.

Monrovia High School CTE teacher Anthony Carlson and senior Charlie Heatherly discuss the student-created gaming app Red Dungeon and more!

We are pleased to partner with our good friends at the Monrovia Duarte Black Alumni Association for the 8th year. See attached flyer for more details about exciting activities taking place in February during Black History Month.

January 29, 2021

Dear Monrovia Unified Community,

Thank you for continuing to partner with us as we continue to create curricular, co-curricular, and emotional support systems on virtual platforms for our students. January has been a busy month and this newsletter provides some updates we hope will be helpful to you.