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At this time last year, we had no idea what changes and challenges 2025 would have in store. What I did know, and what this year reaffirmed, is that whatever 2025 brought our way, we’d get through it together.
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The National Weather Service reports that the Santa Clarita Valley was drenched with nearly nine inches of rain from the atmospheric river that brought a soggy Christmas week to most of California.
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The city of Santa Clarita is seeking five artists to create artwork on five 60-inches by 60-inches canvases that will be featured above the Valencia Library Branch's children's area for two years, May 18, 2026 through May 23, 2028.
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During the 2025 Christmas Holiday Enforcement Period, California Highway Patrol officers were on duty across the state, responding not only to enforcement needs but also to significant winter weather impacts, including snow, flooding and mudslides.
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Bring passport applications and all required documents to the Passport Community Fair, 1-5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 at the Old Town Newhall Library.
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1936 - Passenger plane crash in Rice Canyon kills all 12 aboard [ story]
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The city of Santa Clarita has issued a traffic alert for Sand Canyon Road.
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Property Management Professionals will hold its grand opening and ribbon cutting 4-4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29 at 25124 Springfield Court #220, Valencia, CA 91355.
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The California Highway Patrol is highlighting new public safety laws passed during this year’s legislative session and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that, unless otherwise stated, take effect Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.
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Kaiser Permanente has awarded a $12,000 Community Health Grant to Bridge to Home to help address homelessness in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Boys and girls Foothill League soccer teams have been on holiday schedule this past week, with some teams taking time off and others playing non-league matches. Consequently, league standings haven’t changed much.
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College of the Canyons women's basketball notched another mark in the win column, as the Cougars were able to stack a second straight road victory 54-46 at Oxnard College on Wednesday, Dec. 17.
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1873 - Vasquez gang raids Kingston in (now) Kings County; ties up townspeople, makes off with $2,500 in cash and jewels [ story]
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The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station has issued the following traffic alerts: Due to heavy rains, the westbound right lane is closed on Soledad Canyon Road between Camp Plenty Road and Langside Avenue.
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Fostering Youth Independence’s recent Charlie Brown Holiday party was attended by dozens of local foster youth and their volunteer Allies.
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The National Weather Service as issued the following alerts for the Santa Clarita Valley. Flood Watch until Dec. 26, 4 p.m. PST, High Wind Warning until Dec. 25, 3 p.m. PST.
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1852 - Acton gold mine owner & California Gov. Henry Tifft Gage born in New York [ story]
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger is urging residents to remain vigilant as a powerful storm system moves through Los Angeles County, bringing periods of heavy rain and rapidly changing conditions.
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Thirteen suspects were arrested, and more than $800,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered following a coordinated, multi-agency operation targeting an organized retail theft network operating across Northern California.
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The California State Transportation Agency today announced a new joint effort by two of its departments, the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol, to curb excessive speeding and prevent deadly crashes.
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The city of Santa Clarita invites the community to heat up the holiday season at the Holiday Spice Salsa Edition on Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Canyon Country Community Center, located at 18410 Sierra Highway Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
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1965 - Signal newspaper owner Scott Newhall shows up for a duel (of words) with rival Canyon Country newspaper publisher Art Evans, who no-shows and folds his paper soon after [ story]
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As winter storms enter Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control urges pet owners to take necessary precautions in light of the significant storms expected to last for five days.
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Brayden Miner scored 31 points and Rylan Starr had 24 as The Master's University men's basketball team crushed Bethesda University 145-59 The MacArthur Center.
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49 Comments
Brenda Chang
Donna Cohen
WTG,Nice job Newhall Teachers… What’s up with Hart? Wow
It isn’t Hart…it is SCVI?
Deanna Bewley Davis
Those scores are for SCVI, not the scores for the middle schools/high schools of Wm. S. Hart.
So proud of our NSD schools!
The SCVi scores are misleading. They don’t teach to the test, but to the child. It’s too bad they have to take standardized testing at all.
sorry not a fan of SCVI
Scvi is a great school for those who cannot learn the traditional way. The friendships they build are amazing. The teacher/student relationships are so much stronger than you see at a traditional school. Scvi has been a blessing for my family. At a traditional school my son was bullied by students and just another face to the teachers. At Scvi he has become part of a family that cares about his success and his future. Don’t knock it till you try it!
Doesn’t matter if you are a fan of SCVI or not or what your opinion is if their philosophy. The fact here is that they teach to the child. They spend zero time in test prep. It’s about relationships and deeper learning.
If you use state money, you jump through state hoops… If scores continue in a negative direction they would be at risk of losing their charter (same with any charter school). It’s an unfortunate reality. I’m sure some test prep will occur in the next few years to ensure an increase in scores so the charter can continue to afford it’s families this schooling option.
Which is really sad, Jami. I hate that the state gets to decide what is and is not important for a child to learn. (Which is why we homeschool.) But I do get it. It’s the state’s money, so why shouldn’t they get to decide. The system is broken, for sure. So many good teachers doing what they can for these kids. Even in spite of state testing.
Way to Teachers and Kiddos!!!
Way to go Newhall!!!
Renae M James
Way to go, NSD!!
I’m not sure I understand the results, Newhall did the best-by far- but to say they “aced it?” What am I missing? 60%-70% are proficient what about the other 30-40%…..which is a lot of kids……
NSD didn’t ACE anything. And they did not perform the students in the AEA Santa Clarita campus. The scores from NSD are better than the AEA campus in Aqua Dulce, but that should not come as a surprise to anyone.
Elba Leaños
Tamara Jean Tambe
Kimberly Meyer
Great job to the teachers & kids!
This is as a district whole Renae. Bridgeport tested extremely high into the 90%
Not sure what you’re looking at, but those are not this year’s scores.
The one Renae showed is as a district Newhall was the highest. I’m just showing Bridgeport school. It ranks much higher on its own. But this is last year. They did not test this year yet
I’m actually not sure how Saugus district didn’t have the highest s ores, that baffles me.
We’re all above Einstein. Wuhaha
Except that you are not. And why would that be something to be excited about anyway? My kid graduated from the AEA Santa Clarita campus last year, so his scores are included in the scores that OUTPERFORMED NSD and all of the other districts in this area. Big deal.
And now, crickets …
Great job to our amazing teachers & staff at NSD!
This is the reason we live in the Ranch…WTG NSD!!!
So charter schools aren’t the best, huh say what?
Because they don’t teach to the test. They teach to the child. Just because these children aren’t learning what the state has mandated they learn does not mean they aren’t learning! Very common misconception. ?
Unfortunately are system is based upon standardized testing. If they plan on pursuing higher education, they will have to take sat’s to get into universities.
The system is unfortunate. So many highly intelligent children are being lost in the system. Places like SCVi are trying to educate these children but are chained down by said system. So many great teachers are doing the best with what they are held down with! Time to set the children and educators free. ❤️️
Wow, people sure are obsessed with how ineffective charter schools are. Well, AEA Santa Clarita IS a charter school and these scores were above NSD and every other district in this valley. But you would have to have been given the correct numbers to know that. NSD conveniently included the scores from 96 students at the Aqua Dulce campus, not the 501 from the Santa Clarita campus. Maybe they just forgot. or maybe they didn’t look out the window at the school right across the street from its district office.
Makes all the hard work worth it! :) So proud to be a part of this district!
WHOO HOO FOR NSD!
I wouldn’t call it aced! These are average scores much lower than other districts in Ca. We shouldn’t be patting ourselves in the back just yet we have a ways to go before we ace anything.
Not sure if this is the data for the Albert Einstein Pinecrest location but if it is, here are the numbers – http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2015/ViewReport?ps=true&lstTestYear=2015&lstTestType=B&lstCounty=19&lstDistrict=28603-0128603&lstSchool=0128603
ELA
Grade 3: 56%
Grade 4: 66%
Grade 5: 62%
Grade 6: 63%
Math
Grade 3: 59%
Grade 4: 59%
Grade 5: 47%
Grade 6: 73%
Not too bad!
Exactly! The numbers cited in the NSD press release are for AEA’s Aqua Dulce campus, which has far fewer students.
The scores reflect how area students performed on a standardized test, the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASP).
The NSD was quick to issue a press release indicating that it had outperformed all other schools in the valley; however, closer scrutiny of the data suggests that there were significant errors in NSD’s analysis. I’m not saying this was intentional, but the data included for AEA was incomplete and misleading.
Since AEA operates two campuses, one in Aqua Dulce and one in Santa Clarita, it would make sense to include data from both campuses. That is not what happened. The only data for AEA was from the Aqua Dulce campus. Why is this important? Well, in a nutshell, it’s because the Santa Clarita campus CLEARLY outperformed schools in the NSD (and, Aqua Dulce is pretty far from NSD).
So, here’s what happened: The NSD press release included data from 96 students at the Aqua Dulce campus, leaving out data from the 501 students who attended the Santa Clarita campus (you know, the one directly across the street from the NSD office). In the ELA variable, 3rd graders at AEA SCV scored 56%, which is a bit higher than the number of 47% depicted by NSD as being from AEA. AEA SCV 4th graders actually outperformed NSD students 66% to 65%. Now, these numbers are only important if you place a high value on test scores, which NSD clearly does given the nature of the press release.
When we get to math, AEA SCV students outperformed ALL NSD grades (other than a tie in grade 3). Here are the numbers — Grade 3: NSD, 59%; AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 4: NSD, 55%, AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 5: NSD, 45%; AEA SCV, 47%. Grade 6: NSD, 56%; AEA SCV, 73%. Overall scores worked out like this: NSD, 54%; AEA SCV, 57%.
So, simple math here certainly looks a little different when you have all of the data.
The bottom line: All local schools performed well on these tests. Students in the Santa Clarita Valley are all getting a quality education. To try to skew the results is unnecessary — and dishonest
Exactly! The numbers cited in the NSD press release are for AEA’s Aqua Dulce campus, which has far fewer students.
The scores reflect how area students performed on a standardized test, the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASP).
The NSD was quick to issue a press release indicating that it had outperformed all other schools in the valley; however, closer scrutiny of the data suggests that there were significant errors in NSD’s analysis. I’m not saying this was intentional, but the data included for AEA was incomplete and misleading.
Since AEA operates two campuses, one in Aqua Dulce and one in Santa Clarita, it would make sense to include data from both campuses. That is not what happened. The only data for AEA was from the Aqua Dulce campus. Why is this important? Well, in a nutshell, it’s because the Santa Clarita campus CLEARLY outperformed schools in the NSD (and, Aqua Dulce is pretty far from NSD).
So, here’s what happened: The NSD press release included data from 96 students at the Aqua Dulce campus, leaving out data from the 501 students who attended the Santa Clarita campus (you know, the one directly across the street from the NSD office). In the ELA variable, 3rd graders at AEA SCV scored 56%, which is a bit higher than the number of 47% depicted by NSD as being from AEA. AEA SCV 4th graders actually outperformed NSD students 66% to 65%. Now, these numbers are only important if you place a high value on test scores, which NSD clearly does given the nature of the press release.
When we get to math, AEA SCV students outperformed ALL NSD grades (other than a tie in grade 3). Here are the numbers — Grade 3: NSD, 59%; AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 4: NSD, 55%, AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 5: NSD, 45%; AEA SCV, 47%. Grade 6: NSD, 56%; AEA SCV, 73%. Overall scores worked out like this: NSD, 54%; AEA SCV, 57%.
So, simple math here certainly looks a little different when you have all of the data.
The bottom line: All local schools performed well on these tests. Students in the Santa Clarita Valley are all getting a quality education. To try to skew the results is unnecessary — and dishonest
Um, but you are NOT all above Einstein. If that makes you feel better, more power to you. But maybe before the back-patting continues, you might want to know about the real numbers:
The scores reflect how area students performed on a standardized test, the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASP).
The NSD was quick to issue a press release indicating that it had outperformed all other schools in the valley; however, closer scrutiny of the data suggests that there were significant errors in NSD’s analysis. I’m not saying this was intentional, but the data included for AEA was incomplete and misleading.
Since AEA operates two campuses, one in Aqua Dulce and one in Santa Clarita, it would make sense to include data from both campuses. That is not what happened. The only data for AEA was from the Aqua Dulce campus. Why is this important? Well, in a nutshell, it’s because the Santa Clarita campus CLEARLY outperformed schools in the NSD (and, Aqua Dulce is pretty far from NSD).
So, here’s what happened: The NSD press release included data from 96 students at the Aqua Dulce campus, leaving out data from the 501 students who attended the Santa Clarita campus (you know, the one directly across the street from the NSD office). In the ELA variable, 3rd graders at AEA SCV scored 56%, which is a bit higher than the number of 47% depicted by NSD as being from AEA. AEA SCV 4th graders actually outperformed NSD students 66% to 65%. Now, these numbers are only important if you place a high value on test scores, which NSD clearly does given the nature of the press release.
When we get to math, AEA SCV students outperformed ALL NSD grades (other than a tie in grade 3). Here are the numbers — Grade 3: NSD, 59%; AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 4: NSD, 55%, AEA SCV, 59%. Grade 5: NSD, 45%; AEA SCV, 47%. Grade 6: NSD, 56%; AEA SCV, 73%. Overall scores worked out like this: NSD, 54%; AEA SCV, 57%.
So, simple math here certainly looks a little different when you have all of the data.
The bottom line: All local schools performed well on these tests. Students in the Santa Clarita Valley are all getting a quality education. To try to skew the results is unnecessary — and dishonest.
It doesn’t make much sense to compare a school district to a school. If we were to compare schools within a district, take for example Pico Canyon in NSD v/s AEA – we have overall 83% for Pico v/s 62% for AEA in ELA and 68% for Pico v/s 57% for AEA in math.
These scores are misleading since they do not include the Einstein Academy SCV campus scores but do include the Acton scores. Is Newhall really at the top?
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I know this is a baseline year and yes it’s good that most of our districts performed at or a little above the average line, but we should not be celebrating the status quo, I remember growing up that to “ace” somthing required 100% and not 50-60%.
Instead, we should be striving for higher standards and expect our schools and students to achieve much higher results. Now, if you really want to compare apples to oranges search for your school here:
http://schools.latimes.com/test-scores-2015/
see how your school compares to say Canyon Charter Elementary in santa monica who had a score of 89% english and 93% math or Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary, San Jose 95% english 93% math.
Now I’m not saying we can achieve these scores, I understand the wealth gap but we can sure try! Our kids are only as good as the bar we set for them and we should be setting it higher not lower. That’s all I have to say about that sorry for the rant.