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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
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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
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Sunburst cadets suit up for life after graduation

Nathaniel Martinez December 15, 2025
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VIDEO: Actor William Allen Young reflects on 30-plus years of emceeing the VSA Festival

Staff reports May 13, 2019
For more than three decades, actor and director William Allen Young has emceed Orange County’s VSA Festival, which annually celebrates...
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Weekly roundup: Health education framework approved, lawmakers pitch school start-time bill, and more

Ian Hanigan May 10, 2019
The California Board of Education approved a new optional framework for health education this week, offering guidance to help K-12...
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Woodbridge High student working to spread her appreciation of STEM to other girls

Fermin Leal May 9, 2019
Avika Patel’s list of accolades is quite impressive, especially for a high school junior. The Woodbridge High student has been recognized by national programs that include Forbes 30 Under 30 Fellow, Mars Generation 24 Under 24, NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Awardee and others....
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VIDEO: Students form friendships with special needs peers through talking vests

Fermin Leal May 8, 2019
A group of students at Olinda Elementary in Brea Olinda Unified School District invented computerized vests that allow them to...
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8 OC campuses place in top 100 statewide on new U.S. News ‘Best High Schools’ ranking

Fermin Leal May 7, 2019
Oxford Academy in Anaheim Union High School District ranked as the second best high school in California in the recently...
Shovels and earth-moving equipment

Samueli Academy breaks ground with next phase of campus expansion

Ian Hanigan May 7, 2019
When Samueli Academy launched six years ago with its first class of 120 freshmen, the campus consisted of portable classrooms on a mostly empty lot where Santa Ana Hospital once stood. By year three, the public charter high school had...

OCDE efforts to improve interpreter and translator services highlighted in national publication

Ian Hanigan May 6, 2019
OCDE’s lead language interpreter and translator has been featured in the latest issue of the ATA Chronicle, a national publication...
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Weekly roundup: High school construction academy meets workforce needs, Teachers of the Year celebrated, and more

Fermin Leal May 3, 2019
Students trained through Katella High School’s Building Industry Technology Academy, or BITA, are finding work in the construction sector straight...
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Forum aims to create solutions to support at-risk boys and men of color

Fermin Leal May 2, 2019
More than 500 educators, community leaders, students and others gathered Thursday to discuss how to better support at-risk men and boys, especially Latino and black youth. The “Know My Name Face and Story: Saving Our Most Vulnerable Youth” conference brought...
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Surprise! OCDE announces the 2020 Orange County Teachers of the Year

Staff reports May 1, 2019
Who are the 2020 Orange County Teachers of the Year? You’re about to find out. And so are they. Over...
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