Imagine expanding a bustling freeway from two lanes to 20. That’s essentially what just happened to OCDE’s internet highway, which...
The weekly roundup of this week’s top education stories is here: How’s this for ambitious? The Orange County Department of Education...
Professionals perform at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts every day, but recently a group of Orange County elementary school students became the...
A federal district court has ordered the California Department of Education to disclose personal student information – including documents and data dating...
Kirstie Suarez’s family moved several times when she was in high school, bouncing between California, North Carolina and Florida before...
A waste-reduction partnership between the Orange County Department of Education’s Inside the Outdoors program and OC Waste & Recycling has received...
A new year is upon us, and that means all sorts of new state laws go into effect.
Here at the OCDE Newsroom, we’ve been specifically tracking a handful of educational bills that are expected to have an impact on Orange County students and schools. Click through to see what's changing.
A waste-reduction partnership between OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors program and OC Waste & Recycling has earned the California School Boards Association's highly regarded Golden Bell Award.
Project Zero Waste is a service-learning program that has provided hands-on environmental science instruction to more than 325,000 students since its launch in 2009. [...]
"The Hour of Code offers a global introduction to computer science with one simple call to action," writes Orange County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Al Mijares. "It asks every single student and as many adults as possible to write code for one hour during the week of Dec. 7."
In his latest column for the OCDE Newsroom, Dr. Mijares explains how a campaign that makes it easy to write code is demystifying the field of computer science.
"In September, the state released the first batch of new assessment scores that revealed how well students are learning California’s English and math instructional standards," writes Orange County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Al Mijares.
"The result? Orange County students had outpaced their state and regional counterparts, both on the English and math portions of the test."
Click through to read the superintendent's latest column.