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La Cañada Unified to take temporary enrollments under Newsom executive order, but district warns capacity limited

2144802 · January 22, 2025
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Summary

The La Cañada Unified School District told the governing board it will accept students displaced by recent fires under Gov. Newsom's executive order N-625 through the end of the 2024'25 school year, but staff warned capacity is limited and placements will be made on a grade-by-grade, school-by-school basis.

La Cañada Unified Superintendent Wendy told the governing board that the district will accept students displaced by recent fires under Governor Newsom's executive order N-625 and under existing McKinney-Vento protections for students experiencing homelessness.

"We will be enrolling students whose schools and homes have been destroyed based by based on our grade by grade level review of capacity," Superintendent Wendy said, describing a case-by-case intake process the district will use while the order remains in effect through the current school year.

The nut graf: The order creates two different enrollment paths for families: (1) a temporary path under the governor's emergency directive…

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