Weekly roundup: Anaheim high schoolers take part in day of service, COVID news, and more Ian Hanigan January 21, 2022Inspired by the life and service of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hundreds of students from the Anaheim Union High...
Weekly roundup: Orange County schools endure Omicron storm, and more Ian Hanigan January 7, 2022From surging case rates to the distribution of at-home testing kits, COVID-19 and its Omicron variant continued to dominate education...
Weekly roundup: Orangethorpe’s field of dreams, a tribute to SpongeBob’s creator, and more Ian Hanigan November 19, 2021In a tip of the cap to her late father, an Orangethorpe Elementary teacher has started a softball club for...
Weekly roundup: A mariachi band’s Helpful Honda surprise, vaccine mandate protests, and more Ian Hanigan October 22, 2021A mariachi band from Godinez Fundamental High School in Santa Ana recently received some unexpected kindness from the SoCal Helpful...
Weekly roundup: Walk to School Day, reactions to the governor’s mandate, and more Ian Hanigan October 8, 2021On Wednesday, Darth Vader and his stormtroopers left their TIE fighters at home. Instead, the menacing Star Wars characters imperial-marched...
Weekly roundup: Magnolia’s ambitious agriculture plan, OC’s Blue Ribbon schools, a destructive social media trend, and more Ian Hanigan September 24, 2021Educators in Anaheim are watering the seeds of an ambitious new agriculture program that has the potential to lead to...
Weekly roundup: Tustin High turns 100, summer break officially ends in OC, and more Ian Hanigan September 10, 2021Break out the candles — lots of them. Tustin High School is getting ready to celebrate its 100th birthday. The...
Weekly roundup: Santa Ana principal saluted as a ‘SoCal Hero,’ understanding quarantine guidance, and more Ian Hanigan August 27, 2021Like all Santa Ana Unified campuses, James Madison Elementary offered only distance learning for the entirety of the 2020-21 school...
OCDE’s new leader of alternative education banking on innovative and individualized instruction to engage students Ian Hanigan August 25, 2021Career paths don’t always follow straight lines. Vern Burton knows this as well as anyone. In his younger days, Burton...
Weekly roundup: An OC prep football preview, reactions to the state’s public health order, and more Ian Hanigan August 13, 2021With the Delta variant surging, most of this week’s education news understandably centered on COVID-19 protocols, including the new public...
