You don’t generally associate late October with triple-digit temperatures. Nevertheless, the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for...
Since OCDE launched its One Billion Acts of Kindness initiative in 2016, more than 9.6 million good deeds have been logged on the kindness1billion.org website, and many of you have shared personal stories about kindness in your community. Some of...
As we reported way back in September, scores from the 2017 Smarter Balanced Assessments were relatively unchanged from the previous year, both for Orange County and California. But after drilling into the performance data of California’s youngest test-takers, math educators...
The state Department of Education on Wednesday named Gregory Gardiner, a science teacher from Edison High School in Huntington Beach, as one of five 2018 California Teachers of the Year. Gardiner has taught science for the past 18 years, ranging...
