16 MORE SCHOOLS NEEDED COALITION DISCUSSES GROWTH, CROWDING.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Determined to remedy the school overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. crisis, leaders from area school districts, city and county governments, and developers met Monday night at City Hall to discuss growth and the future of new schools. The Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. School Coalition kicked off its first public meeting by announcing that the valley will need 16 additional schools to house the projected kindergarten-through-12th-grade student enrollment in the next five years. ``The Santa Clarita Valley has grown 19 percent since 1990 and, in that same time, the Saugus school district has grown by 67.2 percent,'' said Judy Fish, superintendent of the Saugus Union School District The Saugus Union School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Saugus, Valencia, and Canyon Country communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 25,2006, it has 15 elementary schools. and head of the coalition's group of school superintendents. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. coalition reports, College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. , designed for 5,000 students, currently serves 13,000. And across the valley there are 12,647 K-12 ``unhoused Un`housed´ a. 1. Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless. students'' - those taught in portable classrooms and on year-round calendars. While the summit did not offer recommendations to solve the problem, a presentation examined the complex nature of getting schools approved, funded and built. ``We're here to communicate with the community,'' Fish said. ``Not everybody realizes what it takes to get schools finished. There's state funds, getting the right site, working with developers on mitigation agreements, the Department of Toxic Substances (Control). ``We want to clarify the various roles those groups play in making that happen,'' she said. The coalition was formed in May to assess the strain of school overcrowding and the rules dictating how and when new schools can be built. It includes representatives from the Newhall, Castaic, Saugus, Sulphur Springs and Hart school districts, as well as from the College of the Canyons community college district. Staffers from the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County and the Building Industry Association also sit on the schools coalition. |
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