Forty freshmen have been selected to participate in a brand new four-year engineering pathway program that uses hands-on, STEM based curriculum at Saugus High School. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. The engineering pathway is the first comprehensive engineering program in the Hart School District, according to Saugus High School Principal ...

One of the three College of the Canyons football players who was in a multiple vehicle collision in Sylmar Friday is still in critical condition, officials said Monday.

The Santa Clarita Valley Education Foundation is holding its Last Sip of Summer fundraiser 3 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Ranch, officials said Wednesday.

Hart district Superintendent Rob Challinor sent a message to the Santa Clarita Valley on Thursday, saying while the district is changing to area-based elections, “It will not alter the way the district is governed.” Hart district officials decided to move to districts with a 4-1 vote July 16 because the change provided officials with a “safe harbor” from a potential lawsuit, said Hart district governing board President Steve Sturgeon. “The CVRA has promoted a great deal of legal action and policy discussion throughout the state,” Challinor said. “The Hart board took this proactive step to avoid a potential legal challenge and to honor the law’s intention, which is to ensure that minority groups are not denied the opportunity to elect candidates and/or pass measures of their choice.”

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson has announced a new framework to help California teachers teach English language arts.

Hart district officials released projections anticipating more than 200 fewer students at Valencia High,

The state’s Common Core Standards Initiative is bringing an influx of technology into classrooms statewide, and the Hart district hired a Santa Clarita Valley product to take on the new challenge locally, officials announced Wednesday. Jon Carrino, 38 of Palmdale, a Sierra Vista Junior High and Canyon High School grad, was named the district’s new director of technology at the William S. Hart Union High School District board meeting this week. His new post will take effect July 1. “It’s really going to be key that we’re there and involved in the discussion as a support function for teachers and students,” Carrino said, discussing his new promotion Thursday. The Hart district oversees about 22,000 students in the Santa Clarita Valley's public junior highs and high schools.

Starting as a small, family-oriented school to support a growing Mandarin-speaking community, the SCV Chinese School now teaches the language to hundreds of Santa Clarita Valley families. “When we started, most of the students were Chinese families with (Chinese) heritage,” said Jinghong Li, 53, of Santa Clarita. “Now, it’s more mainstream, students with families who recognize the benefits of learning this language and see its future importance." Li, who’s the school’s executive director and founding principal, is an engineer by trade who earned a master’s degree at the University of Virginia, came to the Santa Clarita Valley more than 20 years ago to work with 3D printing, after teaching at the University of Dayton. Li saw the need in his own family as well as others, he said, when he opened the school five years ago.

Hart district officials signed off on a settlement to end a lawsuit filed by Citizens For Castaic over Castaic High School

More than 200 Santa Clarita Valley Elementary and Junior High school students came together to compete in a FIRST LEGO League Qualifying tournament on Sunday.