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The Santa Clarita Valley Auto Dealers Association is offering area residents the chance to help their school win a $1,000 donation as part of the “Be Cool to My School” Test-Drive Rally.  Points will be awarded for each person (18 and over) who test-drives or purchases a car at any participating Valencia (more…)

chrisphotograph.jpgIn the classic old comedy “Woman of The Year,” the very athletic Katherine Hepburn has to explain she has no time for Spencer Tracy one afternoon because she devoted that date to her Physical Ed.

“Who,” grumped Tracy, “is Physical Ed?”

The same question might be asked about “Special Ed.”  All that most people know about “Special Ed” is that he is a very expensive guy. In California, billions of dollars go into “Special Ed” each year. (more…)

The Santa Clarita Valley School & Business Alliance is hosting a free career fair for students under 20 from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at College of the Canyons. The fair, Discovering Careers 2008, will give students a chance to explore careers through demonstrations and activities. The event is free at College of the Canyons located at 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road in Valencia. 

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, on Wednesday backed legislation that would allow the administration to buy federally backed student loans (more…)

The City of Santa Clarita and the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station continue to hold monthly training classes to help educate the local business community on crime prevention topics to assist them in their daily business operations. (more…)

education.BMP   Record numbers of applications leave many high-achieving students without a seat at their first-choice school. But in some cases, second-best ends up being a winner. With nearly perfect grades at a prestigious Los Angeles prep school and high SAT scores, (more…)

education.BMP    Parents will have to navigate unfamiliar and difficult terrain when it comes time to pay for college this year, with student loan companies in turmoil and banks tightening their standards and raising rates on other types of borrowing. (more…)

Eight-time Grammy winner and Los Angeles native Herb Alpert, who in November pledged $30 million to UCLA to establish the cross-disciplinary UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, has now given $15 million to the School of Music at the California Institute of (more…)

One of the reasons that Santa Clarita is a desired community for people to want to live in is the public school system.  I have an undying respect for the teachers, staff and administrators of our local school districts.  Both of my children attend school at Pinetree Elementary school (more…)

Despite progress, California schools remain mired near the bottom of the latest national assessment of students’ writing ability, largely because the state has so many immigrants who learn English as a second language. (more…)

The City of Santa Clarita and the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station continue to hold monthly training classes to help educate our local business community on crime (more…)

High school seniors in special education classes will be required for the first time this year to pass California’s exit exam to qualify for a diploma after lawyers for the disabled failed to get them an exemption. (more…)

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