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Author Ian Hanigan

Ian Hanigan

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.

Hands in the shape of a heart

OC schools are ready to take on the Great Kindness Challenge

Ian Hanigan
January 25, 2021
Pandemic or not, a number of Orange County schools are set to participate in the Great Kindness Challenge, which kicks off Monday, Jan. 25. Created by the nonprofit group Kids for Peace, and endorsed by stat... Read More
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These educational programs from OC have earned Golden Bell Awards

Ian Hanigan
January 20, 2021
The California School Boards Association recently presented Golden Bell Awards to 11 educational programs from Orange County that drive student engagement, improve school cultures and close opportunity gaps. ... Read More
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Weekly roundup: Supporting students experiencing homelessness, a state budget starting point, and more

Ian Hanigan
January 15, 2021
Spectrum News 1 recently spotlighted a social services liaison for the Santa Ana Unified School District who's working to provide support for students and families experiencing homelessness. Elida Sanchez an... Read More
Classroom

California Department of Public Health issues new COVID-19 guidance for schools

Ian Hanigan
January 14, 2021
State health officials on Thursday announced updated guidance for K-12 schools, outlining requirements for campuses that have already reopened along with criteria for those planning to resume in-person instruct... Read More
he budget looks relatively healthy in the budget year although the Administration projects a structural deficit beginning in 2022-23.

Here are a few takeaways from the governor’s proposed budget

Ian Hanigan
January 10, 2021
The release of the governor's spending plan kick-starts deliberations that are expected to continue through the spring. Preliminary state budgets give school districts and other public agencies a basis for dev... Read More
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Rethinking what it means to connect: 10 Orange County teachers share their 2020 perspectives

Ian Hanigan
December 30, 2020
How do we begin to describe 2020? And how will we look back on it? "The human connections are the same, but the methods of connecting just need to change," says Sarah Housepian of Pacifica High School (left... Read More
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Capo elementary teacher is a finalist in presidential awards program for math and science educators

Ian Hanigan
December 24, 2020
An elementary teacher in the Capistrano Unified School District is among a half-dozen state finalists in the 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching program. Leslie Whitak... Read More
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OCDE represented on list of Orange County’s 100 Most Influential People

Ian Hanigan
December 23, 2020
An OCDE program administrator has made the Orange County Register’s list of OC's Most Influential People of 2020. Kirk Anderson, who oversees the department’s juvenile court schools, is among 100 local influ... Read More
Three students with presents

Pandemic or not, Pacifica High School’s Adopt-A-Child brings holiday cheer

Ian Hanigan
December 23, 2020
Pacifica High School's annual Adopt-A-Child event been a winter tradition for more than 30 years. And it wasn't about to give way to a pandemic. On Monday, Dec. 14, more than 250 seniors and two dozen staff ... Read More
Bikes and students at an assembly

Foundation surprises local third-graders: ‘Everybody’s getting a bike!’

Ian Hanigan
December 22, 2020
For the fifth straight year, the nonprofit Bikes for Kids Foundation paid a visit to a Tustin Unified elementary school and stunned local third-graders with a pretty big reveal. "Everybody is getting a bike!... Read More
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Orange County Department of Education
Al Mijares, Ph.D.
County Superintendent of Schools

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