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The Santa Clarita Valley Special Education Local Plan Area (SCV SELPA) and its member districts actively seek out all individuals with exceptional needs, from birth to age 22, including infants and children parentally placed in private schools.
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The Superior Court of Los Angeles County will be closed Monday, July 22, as the Court works diligently to repair and reboot network systems that were severely impacted by a ransomware attack first detected the morning of Friday, July 19.
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1952 - 7.5-magnitude Kern County earthquake devastates Tehachapi; damage spread from San Diego to Las Vegas [story]
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2001 - Then-Assemblyman George Runner introduces legislation to memorialize the historic Ridge Route. Enacted Oct. 4. [story]
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Each year, since 1959, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors funds the production of a free holiday celebration at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Dec. 24.
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Caltrans announces the northbound Interstate 5 will be reduced to one or two lanes overnights Monday, July 22 through Friday, July 26 from Lake Hughes Road to two miles north of Templin Highway (near the Whitaker Sand Shed) north of Castaic for paving work.
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The Santa Clarita Master Chorale, Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra and the Child & Family Center have all earned grants from the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.
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Santa Clarita Public Libraries will host Tin Can art craft events at all three of the Santa Clarita branches July 23-25 at 5:30-6:30 p.m.
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Sign up to volunteer today for the city of Santa Clarita’s Third Annual Graffiti Removal Day on Saturday, Aug. 3, 8-11 a.m. at Soledad Canyon Road and Camp Plenty.
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The Canyon County Community Center will host "Celebrate," an events series that celebrates cultures, customs and culinary wonders on Friday, Aug. 9, from 6-9 p.m.
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The Valencia Public Library will host a Teens DIY craft event for journals Thursday, July 25 from 3:30- 4:30 p.m. at 23743 Valencia Blvd, Valencia, CA 91355.
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The city of Santa Clarita will present “Textura,” an original paintings and mosaic work exhibition by local artist Naomi Young.
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Join Amazing Dog Rescue at PetSmart to meet the cutest, most amazing, fluffy friends searching for their forever homes, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Sunday, July 21.
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Did you know that the summer season is the busiest intake time for Animal Care Centers? It’s also the best time to add a new furry friend to your family.
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Tim Williams, a lifelong resident of Val Verde and member of the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society Advisory Board, is working to make sure his community and its storied past is not forgotten.
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The California Department of Transportation has announced emergency repairs on State Route 126 to clear the shoulder and roadway of mudslide/debris, clear and clean drainage systems, repair damaged slopes and place erosion control.
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1915 - Ince, Griffith, Sennett form Triangle Film Corp.; it produces & distributes early William S. Hart films [story]
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In celebration of Zonta leadership in the Santa Clarita Valley, ten past presidents of the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley hosted the Installation of Officers and Directors for the 2024-2026 biennium on Monday, May 20 at the beautiful patio of Salt Creek Grille in Valencia.
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The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning for the Santa Clarita Valley Friday, July 19 through Wednesday, July 24 as triple digit temperatures have been forecast.
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Toby Lite, a middle infielder from Saugus High School has signed his national letter of intent to play baseball at The Master's University.
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The Outlets at Tejon are helping kids get ready for the new school year with its Back-to-School Bonanza happening Saturday, Aug. 3, beginning at 1 p.m.
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I do not agree with how hard you, “Joe Messina” or anyone else works to provide anything , for anyone who comes to the United States on anything, visa, no visa, vacation and decides to stay and begin to work, and seek health care, and education. We have enough poor, homeless, uneducated, deprived, and denied of what’s legally and
rightfully theirs. Since you’re in such a great position with the school district to “work so hard”, (or ask a few favors from some of your school district buddies) and help these individuals receive the proper education at which you think they deserve. Maybe open your eyes and look around at what’s happening to our own legal, native citizens of this country, and start with that issue first. Or is it going to be another song and dance about how those kids don’t belong in a public school because of their upbringing, or backgrounds, or the neighborhoods they live in, etc. there are ways to handle everything, so why are you willing to start with “visa or not” they are still illegals in my country, instead of our own? Is it to much work for you Mr. Messina?
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your service to the community. I enjoy your ed/op pieces.
California is a state that rewards illegal immigrants for violating federal law and punishes citizens for exercising federal rights (to wit, Second Amendment rights).
I practiced immigration law some time ago and, from time to time, still deal with immigration appellate matters. Yes, it is better to be illegal. The LA Times ran a piece yesterday about the extraordinary protections and “rights” that illegal aliens are afforded and the de facto “California citizenship” that results.
It sounds like these kids were issued the wrong visa. There is a plethora of visas available for dependents of temporary workers. So, for example, if this is an H-1B worker with dependents, the kids should have been granted an H-4 visa, not a B-2 visa. A B-2 visa expressly prohibits the enrollment into public education other than the enrollment into a limited English study program so as to effect the purpose of tourism.
This is one of the reasons I quit doing immigration law as a regular matter. You ask 10 immigration officials and you get 12 different answers.
Best of luck. Your heart is in the right place.
Best –
Tony
How many more individuals from other countries are we going to allow to enter our country and begin work, school, receiving health care, education, and so on? Because the more it happens, the more our own people stay homeless, become homeless, struck with illness, death from lack of healthcare, uneducated non productive members of society? Business owners higher illegals all the time for cheaper labor rates, while our fellow American brothers and sisters go hungry, homeless, and in need of medical attention, so they get to go to the free health clinics and get butchered up, while good old Ofelia Menendez Gonzalez is receiving top notch care for herself and her unborn baby, and she’s a total 100% illegal immigrant who doesn’t speak a word of English, but is raping my peoples benefits. And yes that says raping, not reaping. Let me tell you something, until our own American population is taken care of, I could give a rats ass about some illegal and her children. They knew they had it rough when she was impregnated, but proceeded to do so anyways, knowing that they would come here and get treated like royalty. Close the boarders, and all you pro immigrants deserve a better life people, trade them places then, let them here, and you go live where they did if it’s so unfair. Get a clue America, we are loosing, and are children are loosing a battle they haven’t even encountered yet from the idiotic mentality of people like Joe and Anthony who wrote above.
Our society is great, the people who do it right get penalized and the people in the wrong get the rewards.
Shouldn’t the parents have requested student visas? Or what obstacles kept them from coming here with a student visa instead? Had the school accepted them as “tourist visa” holders then they’d also be “illegal.” Is there an immigration or education attorney who can help them make this happen for them?
I usually don’t respond… Some of you totally missed my point. No Im NOT for illegal immigration/rights. HOWEVER I am for everyone being treated or given equal treatment. If we are allowing “Illegals” to go to school here on the premise that every child deserves and education. Then those that are here by doing it or trying to do it the right way should be allowed to be educated as well. I do not know whether they were given the wrong info as to what visa to apply for or not. Just that its wrong to reward illegal behavior and punish those who try to do the right thing…
I understood your article and thought it was pretty clear. I feel bad for these children too, as they are just victims of circumstance. I hope that someone can assist them in this matter.
No matter what’s the reson, Illegally to US. No excuse.
Hello,
I graduated from a Christian College, tried to stayed
In the US, but there was NO single way, was
obliged to leave my family in the US! Friends
that went into the illegally are American
citizens now through lying and so on! America
has been known for making the illegal
something legal! I want to go back now with
higher education from California and I am
not able to do so! It is a backwards country!
God bless America though:)