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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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Orange Unified provided SAT, PSAT to 8,000 high school students

Fermin Leal October 16, 2018
As part of a growing statewide effort to have more students take the SAT and PSAT, the Orange Unified School...
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Weekly roundup: OCC to build on-campus housing, local students spread kindness, and more

Ian Hanigan October 12, 2018
In a region increasingly defined by high housing costs, Orange Coast College is poised to become the first community college...
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Q&A: OCDE’s Project GLAD trains educators to build literacy and language skills

Ian Hanigan October 11, 2018
This week, nearly 100 teachers, coaches, consultants and administrators are engaging in in-depth conversations about language acquisition and multiliteracy at the 26th Annual OCDE Project GLAD® NTC Conference. The two-day conference, featuring keynote presentations from experts on language and dual immersion...
California State Capitol Building

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...
Laboratory technician Tony Figueroa helps El Toro High student Mason Maragon work design an experiment to test the integrity of a pad lock.

OC Pathways recognized for work helping train students for college, careers

Fermin Leal October 9, 2018
OC Pathways has been nominated for the eighth annual Turning Red Tape Into Red Carpet Awards by the Orange County...
Teacher Mandy Kelly and her students

For one OC class, an assignment on kindness turns into a kindness movement

Ian Hanigan October 8, 2018
It began with a simple classroom assignment: Perform one random act of kindness every day for a month, and write it down. But by the end of December 2016, the sixth-graders in Mandy Kelly’s class at Trabuco Mesa Elementary School...
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Weekly roundup: Laguna Beach High promotes voter registration drive, OC test scores remain steady, and more

Fermin Leal October 5, 2018
With election day just one month away, the effort to register more young people to vote continues to be a...
Portrait of Analee Kredel

OCDE’s new special ed chief brings strong vision for continuing success of schools and programs

Ian Hanigan October 3, 2018
The Orange County Department of Education has tapped Analee Kredel as its newest chief of Special Education Services. Kredel, who...
An image of young students using desktop computers

OC students continue steady progress in latest performance assessments

Fermin Leal October 2, 2018
For the fourth consecutive year, Orange County students outpaced their peers statewide on math and English standardized tests, according to figures released today. Overall, local scores from the 2018 Smarter Balanced Assessments improved at nearly every grade level by one...
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OC campus wins prestigious National Blue Ribbon award

Fermin Leal October 1, 2018
Golden Elementary in Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, was awarded Monday a 2018 National Blue Ribbon, the country’s top prize...
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