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Author Fermin Leal

Fermin Leal

Fermin Leal serves as a communications specialist for Orange County Department of Education's Communications and Media Services Department where he works to highlight news and successful education initiatives at OCDE and at public schools across Orange County. Before joining OCDE, Fermin worked as an education journalist for 15 years, most recently at the nonprofit education news site EdSource. Prior to that, he worked for the Orange County Register. In this role, he wrote features and news articles about career and college readiness, the state’s implementation of the Common Core and Smarter Balanced exams and challenges facing students in higher education.

Assemblyman Phillip Chen with two sonora high students

Sonora High School’s ‘Water Guardians’ inspire proposed conservation law

Fermin Leal
April 21, 2017
Four Sonora High School students, dubbed the La Habra Water Guardians, have helped a state lawmaker introduce a bill that aims to promote water conservation across California’s public schools. The students f... Read More
Students working on a construction site

Building competition tests students’ construction skills

Fermin Leal
April 20, 2017
More than 150 high school students from across the region spent two days combing through blue prints, hammering together wood frames and running plumbing through scale-sized model homes as part of the HBC Home/... Read More
Huntington Beach Union High School District

OC District Pulse: Huntington Beach Union High School District

Fermin Leal
April 19, 2017
Huntington Beach Union High School District’s support of the four As, or academics, activities, athletics and the arts, remains the core mission of the 16,000-student district that stretches across Huntington B... Read More
Samueli Academy

29 Orange County schools awarded Gold Ribbons

Fermin Leal
April 18, 2017
Twenty-nine Orange County middle and high schools were named Tuesday as 2017 California Gold Ribbon Schools, the state’s top honor for individual campuses. The state Department of Education created the award... Read More
News print

Weekly roundup: Retired principal begins second career as hot dog vendor

Fermin Leal
April 14, 2017
Rick Jameson has gone from running a middle school to running a hot dog stand in the span of a few months. Jameson retired as principal of Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate School at the end of last school... Read More
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Credits

Orange County Department of Education
Al Mijares, Ph.D.
County Superintendent of Schools

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