Castaic Union School District officials have notified Einstein Academy officials and Acton Agua Dulce Unified officials that their recent charter school approvals are a violation of the state’s Education Code. If a resolution is not reached, Castaic officials plan to seek an injunction against Einstein...

The Santa Clarita Valley’s junior high and high school officials are looking into whether Einstein Academy officials are planning a secondary school in the Santa Clarita Valley at a recently approved charter school site, a Hart district official said Monday. William S. Hart Union High School District...

Los Angeles County Office of Education board members will have one more week to consider the appeal by Albert Einstein Academy Letters for the Arts and Sciences school officials, after the school’s executive director asked to postpone the hearing Tuesday. The school is looking to charter a kindergarten-through-sixth-grade...

Kevin D. Korenthal Eighty school officials, parents, teachers and students of the Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts & Sciences enthusiastically appeared at the Los Angeles County Office of Education in Downey on Tuesday for the hearing on appeal of the denial of their K-6 petition to the...

The Hart School Board will consider an application Wednesday from a proposed charter school that wants to teach computer skills and Mandarin Chinese to seventh and eighth graders. In its application, Apollo Charter School describes itself as a “college preparatory charter school” whose mission is...

Einstein Academy officials will go before the Los Angeles County Board of Education in Dec. 11 at 3 p.m., in hopes of being granted a K-6 charter. On Nov. 14, Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Sciences appealed to the Los Angeles County Board of Education after being denied a K-6 charter...

Second of two parts. Read Part 1 [here].   Amber Raskin is SCVi’s executive director. Santa Clarita Valley International Charter school, or SCVi for short, a Hart district-authorized K-12 public charter school opened in 2008, offers tours of its unique campus in a Castaic shopping center each...

BY: James Gibson, Superintendent, Castaic Union School District Robert Nolet, Ed.D., Superintendent, Sulphur Springs School District Marc Winger, Ed.D., Superintendent, Newhall School District   As the superintendents of three school districts in the Santa Clarita Valley, we are concerned with any...

Kevin D. Korenthal Charter schools are a wonderful option for parents who wish to seek alternatives to traditional public schools to educate their children. However, Charters do have some opposition, usually among administrators within the public school system. One of the most common arguments is that...

[Advanced Academics] – Golden Valley Virtual Charter School, a tuition-free accredited public school serving middle and high school students, in Ventura, Los Angeles, Kern and Santa Barbara counties, has scheduled two information sessions to help interested students and parents learn more about...