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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
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Sunburst cadets suit up for life after graduation

Nathaniel Martinez December 15, 2025
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Woodbridge High three-peats as OC Academic Decathlon champion

Fermin Leal February 12, 2019
Woodbridge High School won its third straight Orange County Academic Decathlon crown, earning an automatic bid to the California Academic...
Elementary students in a classroom

All Anaheim Elementary campuses moving to a single-track calendar

Ian Hanigan February 11, 2019
After more than 20 years, all students in the Anaheim Elementary School District are going to be on the same...
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Weekly roundup: Music lab debuts in Anaheim, students build device for space launch, and more

Fermin Leal February 8, 2019
About 150 students at the Juliette Low School of the Arts in Anaheim are learning music in the elementary school’s newly opened Lang Lang Keys of Inspiration Piano Lab. The Orange County Register featured the lab this week, describing how...
Portola High School students in front of the Vincit sign

OC students explore potential careers at Irvine-based science and tech companies

Ian Hanigan February 7, 2019
Nearly 300 students from Orange County high schools and community colleges got a chance to visit Irvine-based technology and life...
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Full-day kindergarten coming to all Saddleback Valley Unified elementary schools

Fermin Leal February 6, 2019
Add Saddleback Valley Unified School District to those moving to a full day of kindergarten at all of its district...
students hold up college banners

New partnership will allow some Garden Grove Unified high school students to enroll in college courses

Fermin Leal February 5, 2019
The Garden Grove Unified School District, the Rancho Santiago Community College District and Santa Ana College will partner to create a new Early College High School program at Santiago High School beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. The Early College...
Law enforcement and others at a command post

Glenknoll Elementary closes for one day following Yorba Linda plane crash

Ian Hanigan February 4, 2019
Updated at 4:19 p.m. on Feb. 4: The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District has announced that Glenknoll Elementary School will reopen...
students give thumbs up

‘Decathletes’ face off in thrilling final round of OC Academic Decathlon

Fermin Leal February 2, 2019
Inside the Westminster High gymnasium, they waved pom poms, hoisted team flags, chanted cheers and screamed every time their team...
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Weekly roundup: California’s new schools chief, detection dogs in Fullerton, and more

Ian Hanigan February 1, 2019
California’s new superintendent of public instruction was abandoned by his father and lost his mother to cancer at age 6. But Tony Thurmond, 50, says he found success in school through support from his extended family and teachers who believed...
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Tustin Unified to offer full-day kindergarten at every campus

Fermin Leal January 31, 2019
All elementary schools in the Tustin Unified School District will provide a full day of kindergarten to every student beginning...
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