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Huntington Beach Union High School District educators, administrators and board trustees celebrate the start of a new partnership between Edison High School and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. (Huntington Beach Union High School District)

Weekly roundup: Edison High students help endangered trout with new campus lab, and more

Madeline Gray December 19, 2025

31st Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County cover

New Conditions of Children report offers a snapshot of OC education trends for 2025

Ian Hanigan December 18, 2025

Gigi Manning, 2025 OCMAA Award recipient for secondary media arts, stands with award sponsor and presenter Steven Brittan, president and CEO of the Laguna College of Art + Design.

Arts educators, leaders to be celebrated at 2026 OC Music and Arts Administrators Awards

Vicky Nguyen December 18, 2025

Participants and supporters, some dressed in team costumes, cheer from the stands during the Super Quiz Relay at the 2025 Orange County Academic Decathlon.

Academic event season is coming up. Here are some key dates for 2026.

Vicky Nguyen December 16, 2025

Sunburst cadets suit up for life after graduation

Nathaniel Martinez December 15, 2025

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? Over the last 12 months,...

Reflecting on an unprecedented year: 10 notable OCDE Newsroom stories from 2020

Nichole Pichardo December 29, 2020

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year like no other. And now, looking back, we can see...

An image of Orange County Superintendent Al Mijares

Mijares: A year of distress and disruption also highlighted our resilience

Al Mijares December 28, 2020

It is impossible to overstate the challenges our schools were presented with this year, from having to immediately pivot to distance learning in March, to putting in place the latest COVID-19 safety protocols in the summer and fall. Every step...

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...

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,...

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 members from the...

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...

California state superintendent outlines priorities to address pandemic’s impact on students

Nichole Pichardo December 21, 2020

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond last week outlined priorities and investments needed to address the ongoing impacts of...

Weekly roundup: Anaheim district offers free staff testing, local teacher is among OC’s ‘Most Influential,’ and more

Ian Hanigan December 18, 2020

The Anaheim Elementary School District on Monday officially kicked off an initiative to offer free COVID-19 testing to all of its 2,500 employees. Through a partnership with the OC Health Care Agency, AESD staff members can visit Key Elementary School...

Parenting OC seeks nominees for teacher and school employee awards

Ian Hanigan December 17, 2020

Parenting OC magazine is accepting nominations for its School Heroes of Orange County program, which will honor exemplary local teachers...