The William S. Hart Union High School District has added an emergency item to the agenda for their Board meeting Wednesday in order to give the board the ability to vote on an “action plan” to reopen schools in the fall in light of recent protocols put out by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. On Monday, officials ...

Complying with state mandates and national health advisories, the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health has established a staged approach guide to enable K-12 schools to resume safely upon alleged fall 2020 campus reopenings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Based on the expectation that conditions will permit a widespread in-person campus return in L.A. County for the upcoming school ...

Deliberating the best way to configure learning opportunities for the upcoming fall semester, the William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board is scheduled to conduct a virtual meeting on July 15 with blended and virtual learning models on the agenda to be discussed. Given the task of designing an effective learning plan for a safe return to school ...

Several parents from Santa Clarita have begun a petition to keep Sequoia School at its small, Saugus-based campus after Hart District officials decided to move the non-traditional school to Castaic High School. During the spring semester, officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District made the decision to relocate Sequoia School from it’s small location off of Centre ...

The William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board directed district staff to further explore what reopening schools in the district in the fall would look like after being presented two options for a “blended” system during a special meeting Tuesday morning. On Tuesday morning, Hart District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman presented the Governing Board with two options for a ...

The William S. Hart (WiSH) Education Foundation recently named the winners of the first-ever “SCV Virtual Talent Show,” awarding $2,000 in prizes. On Monday, officials with the WiSH Foundation named four winners in the first-ever “SCV Virtual Talent Show,” presented by SCVTV and sponsored by Westfield Valencia Town Center, calling the event an “overwhelming success.” Nearly 60 administrators, teachers and students ...

The William S. Hart Union High School District governing board unanimously approved layoffs for several members of classified staff, and discussed potential plans for returning to school in the fall at a virtual special meeting Wednesday morning. Due to budget limitations, the Hart District Board approved 22 “reduction in force” notices, or RIFs, for district classified staff during a special ...

Hart High School principal Jason d’Autremont has responded to student calls to retire the school’s Indian mascot after a graduating senior sent him an email, sharing that an online petition calling for the removal of the “outdated” mascot had garnered thousands of signatures. On Sunday, graduating senior Julia Estrada wrote an email to d’Autremont in which she called on Hart ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board unanimously approved a temporary new grading policy that effectively eliminates “D” and “F” letter grades, and teachers within the district have been instructed not to administer final exams for the Spring semester. On Wednesday evening, officials convened virtually on Zoom in order to host their regular board meeting, ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board discussed possible temporary adjustments to the district’s grading policy, as well as virtual high school graduations during the current coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday evening, officials convened virtually on Zoom in order to host their regular board meeting. The vast majority of this meeting was spent on the topic ...