[9] In 2021, Tammy Tiber, a Glendale elementary school teacher, showed a video about celebrating LGBT pride to her third-grade class.
This largely went unnoticed until Jordan Henry, a candidate for the Glendale City Council in 2022, received 1,300 pages of documents, including an email sent by Tiber regarding the lesson, he had requested under public records law.
"[12] In response to the June 6, 2023 incident, the Glendale City Council requested that their staff prepare a report on the formation of a human rights commission.
[13] In the GUSD, by 1988, Armenians along with students from the Middle East had become the largest ethnic group in the public schools, now having a larger number than the Latinos.
The Board of Education also appoints a superintendent to oversee day-to-day operations of the district, as well as a non-voting student representative who serves during the school year.
Attackers locked employees out of their systems and demanded a ransom for the safe return of sensitive PII and other confidential data, which included Social Security numbers, addresses, and financial information.
This incident is part of a growing trend of cyberattacks targeting K-12 institutions, disrupting school operations and endangering personal data.
In 2012, the District hired Geo Listening for a pilot program to monitor public online activity of students at the Crescenta Valley, Glendale, and Hoover High Schools.