Highlights from the first few weeks of the 2021-22 school year Nichole Pichardo August 23, 2021It’s the most wonderful time of the year! With staggered start dates from August to the beginning of September, districts...
Voices United: Tustin Unified fifth-grade honor choir celebrates resilience during a challenging year Nichole Pichardo June 17, 2021 While looking back at graduations, celebrations and promotions from across the county, OCDE Newsroom staff recently came across a...
VIDEO: Surprise! Six exemplary educators learn they’re OC’s Teachers of the Year Ian Hanigan May 22, 2020This year’s Orange County Teacher of the Year announcements looked a bit different. Conspicuously missing was the big yellow bus,...
#kindness1billion: More than 130 Tustin third-graders surprised with new bikes Ian Hanigan December 18, 2019Following an essay contest, more than 130 third-graders from Thorman Elementary in the Tustin Unified School District were summoned to...
Tustin Unified to offer full-day kindergarten at every campus Fermin Leal January 31, 2019All elementary schools in the Tustin Unified School District will provide a full day of kindergarten to every student beginning...
Weekly roundup: Volunteers bring coding lessons to youth shelter, students’ satellite launches into orbit, and more Fermin Leal November 16, 2018Children from the Thomas House Family Shelter in Garden Grove are learning coding from from a group of high school...
Irvine students’ STEM lesson involves launching satellite into outer space Fermin Leal November 14, 2018A team of students from six high schools in Irvine Unified and one in Tustin Unified have worked to successfully...
Nearly 75 years after his death, WWII hero’s story to be told by OC student, teacher Ian Hanigan February 20, 2018On a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, the Normandy American Cemetery holds the graves of 9,387 Americans, most of whom lost...
Tustin High School’s Femineers Club works to empower girls in STEM education Fermin Leal December 18, 2017Like many high school engineering clubs, students in this club spend their time building rockets to launch into the sky,...
Weekly roundup: California School Dashboard changes, Savanna High’s mascot and more Ian Hanigan November 10, 2017The state Board of Education unanimously approved technical tweaks to the California School Dashboard this week, saying it was necessary...