school and business partnerships

Student Victor Valenzuela pitches his business idea at a podium

ACCESS students face ‘sharks’ in entrepreneurial pitch competition

Fermin Leal June 28, 2017

Two students from the Orange County Department of Education’s alternative education program each won up to a $5,000 loan after...

A group of five students in professional attire

Career Success Week assists students with job market strategies — and some professional attire

Ian Hanigan March 21, 2017

A group of students enrolled in OCDE’s alternative education program recently spent a week learning what it takes to be...

An image of Orange County Superintendent Al Mijares

Mijares: Community partners are key to reaching ‘One Billion Acts of Kindness’

Al Mijares June 2, 2016

One billion is a number that’s impossible for most of us to fathom. But if it can be measured in...

High School Inc. program leverages local businesses to promote college and career readiness

Ian Hanigan August 31, 2015

The High School Inc. program at Valley High School in Santa Ana may have raised a few eyebrows when it announced that students who entered as sophomores had posted a near-perfect graduation rate of 98.5 percent in 2014. But graduation statistics only tell part of the story. What’s perhaps most unique is this school-within-a-school’s approach to blending college and career readiness. Click through to learn more.