New charter school opens in Santa Ana and celebrates with a ribbon cutting on 8/26

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Media Advisory: Santa Ana Opens New School and Celebrates with Ribbon Cutting

(August 21, 2015) – For the first time in seven years, the Santa Ana Unified School District will open the doors to a brand new school, the Advanced Learning Academy, a dependent charter school that will focus on high-tech, project-based, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum for elementary and intermediate students.

The Advanced Learning Academy, located at 335 East Walnut Avenue in Santa Ana, will begin serving students in grades 4th – 6th on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, the first day of school for the Santa Ana Unified School District.

To commemorate this celebration, a ribbon cutting will be held on Wednesday, August 26, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. Parents, students, staff, and members of the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education will gather to welcome the new school community and to cut the ribbon.

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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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