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Students from Dr. Jonas E. Salk School in the Centralia School District perform during last year’s Orange County Arts and Disability Festival, raising their arms to form heart shapes with their hands.

OC Arts and Disability Festival marks 50 years, calls for entries

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Lincoln Elementary School students explore new robotics challenges in the campus' Innovation Lab. (Courtesy of Newport-Mesa Unified School District)

Weekly roundup: Newport-Mesa students discover tech skills via Innovation Lab, Valley High to host career education film screening, and more

Madeline Gray January 16, 2026
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OCDE joins countywide leaders to strengthen local disaster preparedness efforts

Ian Hanigan January 14, 2026
Garden Grove Unified students in the child development pathway show what they have learned in their career courses at the 11th annual OC Pathways Showcase last year.

REGISTER NOW: OC Pathways Showcase returns to unite industry leaders with future workforce

Madeline Gray January 14, 2026
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Governor’s budget proposal increases education funding while warning of long-term fiscal pressures

Ian Hanigan January 12, 2026
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Weekly roundup: September school start dates; Laguna Beach USD considers weekly COVID-19 testing for students; and more

Nichole Pichardo September 3, 2021
As we’ve mentioned, most of Orange County’s 28 school districts began their fall semesters last month, with the Centralia School...
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Orange Unified partners with Verizon to bring free technology to underserved middle school students

Nichole Pichardo September 2, 2021
Two middle schools in the Orange Unified School District will soon benefit from a nationwide tech education program set to...
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New recycling education program launches in OC classrooms

Nichole Pichardo September 1, 2021
As part of a multifaceted outreach program to educate students, residents and organizations about recycling best practices, Orange County Waste & Recycling, in partnership with the Orange County Department of Education’s Inside the Outdoors environmental education program, is launching a...

#kindness1billion: Garden Grove USD grad gives back by donating backpacks to kindergarteners

Nichole Pichardo August 30, 2021
Kindergarten students at Heritage Computer Science Academy in the Garden Grove Unified School District are now prepared for the new...
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Ian Hanigan August 27, 2021
Like all Santa Ana Unified campuses, James Madison Elementary offered only distance learning for the entirety of the 2020-21 school...
Vern Burton

OCDE’s new leader of alternative education banking on innovative and individualized instruction to engage students

Ian Hanigan August 25, 2021
Career paths don’t always follow straight lines. Vern Burton knows this as well as anyone. In his younger days, Burton played semi-professional football. He took pre-med courses. He worked as a substitute teacher. He studied abroad at the prestigious Sorbonne...
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Highlights from the first few weeks of the 2021-22 school year

Nichole Pichardo August 23, 2021
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! With staggered start dates from August to the beginning of September, districts...
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Weekly roundup: Anaheim Union partners with Google; OC students head back to the classroom; and more

Nichole Pichardo August 20, 2021
Students in the Anaheim Union High School District will soon have the opportunity to take job-specific training courses and earn...
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Weekly roundup: An OC prep football preview, reactions to the state’s public health order, and more

Ian Hanigan August 13, 2021
With the Delta variant surging, most of this week’s education news understandably centered on COVID-19 protocols, including the new public health order requiring school staff to verify they’re vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested regularly. But on a lighter note,...
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State to require all school staff to show proof of vaccination or submit to weekly testing

Ian Hanigan August 11, 2021
California will require that all teachers and school employees show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or get tested on a...
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