YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL NIXED.Byline: Naush Boghossian 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, - The Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. , building two new campuses to ease 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. , will recommend a switch from the unpopular year-round multitrack mul·ti·track adj. 1. Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder. 2. schedule to a single-track system that offers an eight-week summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. and three shorter breaks during the year. The ``blended calendar'' breaks up the instructional year with more frequent and longer breaks and it aligns with the William S. Hart Union High School District. That would allow an easier transition for students from elementary to junior high school and help families with children in schools in both districts. The school year would begin in mid-August and run until June and include a shorter summer vacation, one-week fall vacation, three-week winter vacation Winter vacation has been proposed in modern times (the 20th and 21st centuries) as a more practical alternative to summer vacation in areas that have harsh winters and mild summers. and two-week spring vacation. ``We're going to make some people very happy and disappoint other people,'' said district Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
If the two new elementary schools, Pico Canyon and McGrath, don't open for the 2003-04 school year as expected, the district will implement the traditional calendar at those schools for one year - a schedule in which school starts after Labor Day in September, and there are 10-week summer, two-week winter and one-week spring vacations. In order to successfully implement the single-track calendar, the district's reorganization committee must still determine how to expand capacity at the existing schools, alter school boundaries and reassign students to balance enrollment at each campus. All district schools will be on a blended calendar for the 2004-05 school year. The two new elementary schools will ease the overcrowding at district schools and allow Newhall to implement the single-track schedule, which is favored by parents. The schedule, much like that at 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. , has been preferred all along by the reorganization committee. It has been the district's goal for five years to get off multitrack - a system in which children attend school on one of four schedules, or ``tracks,'' with one of the groups always on vacation - when new schools opened. District officials will ask the board to adopt a new calendar for the 2003-04 school year at the Nov. 26 meeting. |
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