In 2013 the district hired the company Geo Listening to monitor social media accounts of students enrolled in the district . Richard Sheehan , the superintendent of Glendale Unified , said " The whole purpose is student safety . " 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 . Alice Petrossian , the GUSD director of intercultural education , stated that Burbank lies within the middle of other Armenian communities , so it attracted Armenians . In 1987 the district had eight Armenian-speaking teachers and teaching aides , and that year had hired five additional Armenian-speaking teachers and teacher aides . As of 1990 , the largest immigrant group speaking an ethnic home language in the GUSD was the Armenians . By 2004 over 33 % of the Glendale district students were Armenian . That year , due to high levels of student absence around the Armenian Christmas the Glendale district considered making Armenian holidays school holidays . In 2016 it also began having no school on April 24 , known as the anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide ( Red Sunday ) ; it was the first American school district to do this
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Glendale Unified School District