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South Pasadena : Schools Chief Will Leave

Schools Supt. Warren Newman will leave his job in May to become the $71,000-a-year director of the $5.3-million arts-in-education program of the National Endowment for the Arts. The federal agency funds government and local programs that improve the quality of fine arts education.

Newman, who has been superintendent of schools since July, 1985, also has served on the arts and education panel of the California Arts Council. He has chaired statewide panels that evaluated arts programs and that pressed successfully for the formation of the Joint Committee of the Arts in the state Legislature.

A former teacher who likes to boast that he has “taught at every grade level, from the third to the Ph.D. level,” Newman joined the South Pasadena Unified School District in 1981 as assistant superintendent for instruction. Under his tenure as superintendent, district administration underwent drastic reshuffling and the schools survived budget reductions.

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The district has not found a replacement for Newman.

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