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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 cadet with stylist

Sunburst cadets suit up for life after graduation

Nathaniel Martinez December 15, 2025
Students and staff from Ladera Vista Junior High School

Fullerton students advance in national cybersecurity competition

Ian Hanigan March 8, 2018
A group of Fullerton middle schoolers has placed second in a national competition that puts students in the role of...
speakers discuss how schoools are dealing with school shootings

OC education, government, law enforcement leaders offer candid discussion on school safety

Fermin Leal March 6, 2018
Orange County’s public schools, law enforcement and other government agencies have boosted collaborative efforts in recent years aimed at preventing...
Students working at a campus garden

Inside the Outdoors secures funding for waste education program impacting more than 900,000 students

Ian Hanigan March 6, 2018
Inside the Outdoors, OCDE’s popular environmental education program, has netted a sizable grant to present standards-based lessons on the science of solid waste to nearly a million Orange County students. At last week’s county Board of Supervisors meeting, OC Waste &...

C-H-A-M-P: Eighth-grader wins second straight OC Spelling Bee, advances to national competition

Ian Hanigan March 3, 2018
Round by round, they dueled over words like  “intaglio,” “vivace,” “bobbejaan” and “zeitgeber.” When Genevie Nguyen of Irvine Intermediate School...
Typewriter

Weekly roundup: Girls Engineering Day in Anaheim, Chinese New Year, new social-emotional learning guidelines and more

Ian Hanigan March 2, 2018
More than 120 middle and high school girls built bridges out of plastic straws, designed roadways, learned about watersheds and...
South Junior High

Seven OC schools honored for promoting civics learning

Fermin Leal March 1, 2018
Seven Orange County schools have been recognized by the California Courts system for their efforts to engage students in civic learning. These campuses are among 70 statewide honored with state Civic Learning Awards for encouraging students through projects and other...
Students on computers participating in online gaming

OC students honing teamwork, problem-solving, communication skills in new e-sports league

Fermin Leal February 28, 2018
Each of the five team members had their assignment. Two flanked the enemy from opposite sides. One served as a...
classroom instruction

Find out which OC school districts made the College Board’s eighth annual AP District Honor Roll

Ian Hanigan February 27, 2018
Five local school districts have been named to the College Board’s eighth annual AP District Honor Roll. Capistrano, Garden Grove,...
Kindness posters at Fisler Elementary School

#kindness1billion: Good deeds add up for kindergarteners at Fullerton’s Fisler School

Ian Hanigan February 26, 2018
A kindergarten teacher from Fisler School in Fullerton found a clever way to tie kindness to California’s math standards. At the beginning of the school year, Stephanie Burcombe handed out packets of paper with 100 squares to each child in...
News chalkboard graphic

Weekly roundup: Students learn to follow the food chain, research program honors fallen WWII heroes, and more

Fermin Leal February 23, 2018
Orange high school students are learning through hands-on experience about food production through the new Youth Food Literacy Program. The Orange...
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