OPEN ENROLLMENT WINDOW CLOSING RAPIDLY IN VALLEY.Byline: Sherry sherry [from Jérez], naturally dry fortified wine, pale amber to brown in tint. The term sherry originally referred to wines made from grapes grown in the region of Jérez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain; today it may refer to any of the Joe Crosby Daily News Staff WriterSpace is limited, but there are still a few seats left at some of the hottest schools in the Valley. At Taft High School in Woodland Hills, about 30 open enrollment seats were available two weeks before the start of school, but campus officials predict they'll go quickly. ``I'm sure we'll fill all of them,'' Assistant Principal Brenda Creed said. ``We have a fairly good reputation as far as academics go.'' The scramble To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. to find good schools has been made more difficult by an enrollment surge districtwide and the class-size reduction mandate for kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through third grade. This year, nearly 650,000 students are expected to enroll in kindergarten through 12th grade in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. - 11,300 more than last year. As a result, some Valley schools such as Dixie Canyon Avenue School in Sherman Oaks did not participate in the open enrollment program to leave space for neighborhood students. Parents and guardians are advised to call the school office before visiting the campus to find out if any open enrollment seats are left. New and continuing students also should confirm the first day of classes because schools are on different schedules throughout the district. Most LEARN schools will register students through the first day of the semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s Sept. 4. Schools on traditional calendars will open their offices Wednesday. Preregistration pre·reg·is·tra·tion n. An early registration, as for returning college students, that takes place before general registration. will extend through the first day of school Sept. 9. For more information, call the district's school information center at (213) 625-KIDS. |
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