Ian Hanigan serves as chief communications officer for the Orange County Department of Education, overseeing the Communications and Media Services unit. Along with producing stories and videos for the OCDE Newsroom, this team facilitates copywriting, video production, media relations, graphic design, web design and event support for OCDE.
Prior to joining the department in 2015, Ian spent eight years as public information officer for the 30,000-student Irvine Unified School District. Before that, he was a local journalist, writing for the Long Beach Press-Telegram from 1999 to 2003 and the South Bay’s Daily Breeze newspaper from 2003 to 2006. His beats included education, city government, business and aerospace.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the final ruling in the landmark case of Mendez v. Westminster, which ended the legal justification for forced school segregation in California and paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board decision.
School attendance review boards from four Orange County school districts have been designated as model programs by the state for practices that have helped reduce chronic absenteeism rates and improve student attendance.
Ocean Institute in Dana Point is offering scholarships for its Adopt-A-Class program, which allows students in underserved communities — primarily from...
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