Mijares: Orange County students are making a difference through kindness Al Mijares October 18, 2018In December 2016, sixth-grade teacher Mandy Kelly asked her class at Trabuco Mesa Elementary School in the Saddleback Valley Unified...
Are you ready for a big quake? OC schools to prepare with the Great California ShakeOut Fermin Leal October 17, 2018Scores of students, teachers and other school staff will drop, cover and hold Thursday as part of the Great California ShakeOut....
Orange Unified provided SAT, PSAT to 8,000 high school students Fermin Leal October 16, 2018As part of a growing statewide effort to have more students take the SAT and PSAT, the Orange Unified School...
Weekly roundup: OCC to build on-campus housing, local students spread kindness, and more Ian Hanigan October 12, 2018In a region increasingly defined by high housing costs, Orange Coast College is poised to become the first community college...
Q&A: OCDE’s Project GLAD trains educators to build literacy and language skills Ian Hanigan October 11, 2018This week, nearly 100 teachers, coaches, consultants and administrators are engaging in in-depth conversations about language acquisition and multiliteracy at...
Updated 2018 state bill tracker: Education laws that will impact OC schools Fermin Leal October 10, 2018(A previous version of this post ran in September. This version has been updated with new information.) Gov. Jerry Brown...
OC Pathways recognized for work helping train students for college, careers Fermin Leal October 9, 2018OC Pathways has been nominated for the eighth annual Turning Red Tape Into Red Carpet Awards by the Orange County...
For one OC class, an assignment on kindness turns into a kindness movement Ian Hanigan October 8, 2018It began with a simple classroom assignment: Perform one random act of kindness every day for a month, and write...
Weekly roundup: Laguna Beach High promotes voter registration drive, OC test scores remain steady, and more Fermin Leal October 5, 2018With election day just one month away, the effort to register more young people to vote continues to be a...
OCDE’s new special ed chief brings strong vision for continuing success of schools and programs Ian Hanigan October 3, 2018The Orange County Department of Education has tapped Analee Kredel as its newest chief of Special Education Services. Kredel, who...
