Tom Torlakson, the state superintendent of public instruction, kicked off California’s Common Core Summer with a day-long seminar in Sacramento to help teachers instill deeper learning of mathematics in their students.

Longtime Newhall resident, journalist and community volunteer Patti Rasmussen was named to the city of Santa Clarita Arts Commission on Tuesday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Rasmussen has been a longtime voice in the community as a journalist who covered education for The Signal and contributes regularly to several publications as ...

Gov. Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula has led to heated debate and a strong stance against the change from the William S. Hart Union High School District. The proposal would allocate money on a per pupil basis with supplemental funding based on the number of students that are not English language proficient, are from low-income families, or are in ...

Santa Clarita Valley International Charter Schools (SCVi) is inviting the community to honor a key figure in their success at a benefit dinner March 16. Marti Heinbaugh, regional manager for Mission Valley Bank, has greatly helped SCVi offer students an interactive learning experience by convincing the bank to donate funding and offer her insight on the SCVi Board of Directors, ...

  After nearly three years of planning, discussion and upgrades, Saugus Union School District officials are looking at the opening of Emblem Elementary at Tuesday’s board meeting. “The board is excited to be taking a look at getting (Emblem Elementary School) reopened and that’s what we’ll be talking about (at the meeting),” said Joan Lucid, superintendent of the Saugus Union ...

William S. Hart Union High School District officials discussed new testing standards for seventh- to 12th-grade students mandated by the state within two years at the district board meeting Wednesday. “Even if students test well, they’re behind. They need to speak well, be creative, that makes an effective worker. We’re operating on a very low level and we need to get ...

Paul Rivas, a former Hart official, died Monday in a car crash on Highway 138. He was 51. Rivas was traveling eastbound on Highway 138 in a 2001 Dodge Ram pickup truck when the vehicle he was driving swerved into the westbound lane and collided head on with a big rig driven by Clarence Bonam, 44, of Adelanto, near 140th ...

Correction: The article orginally stated some misinformation about StudentsFirst and the organizations head, Michelle Rhee.  California is one of 11 states to recently receive an overall grade of F in a StudentsFirst report card evaluating education. The StudentsFirst report repeatedly emphasized using students test scores to evaluate teachers and decide how much funding schools would receive, but did not consider ...

Concerned parents and other citizens have less than a month to offer their opinion on the Next Generation Science Standards, a reevaluation on the way science is taught in school. Now in its second stage of development, NGSS is welcoming everyone to look at their proposed revisions and offer comments and criticism before Jan. 29. “I think you’ll find there’ll ...