The IUSD Board of Education met for its final session of 2009 Tuesday night, and there was no shortage of business on the agenda.

“What act of kindness would you do with $10?” That’s the question being posed to Woodbury Elementary students, who will each be given ten dollars next week to brighten someone else’s day.

For the last eight years, the Irvine Family Resource Center has been a vital community resource, assisting IUSD students and their families with counseling, parenting support and linkage to information and services. Then a drop in funding threatened the center's continuation at the end of last school year.

Budget experts have been scouring the thesaurus to come up with adjectives that describe California’s budget.

In case you missed it, a University High student recently achieved perfection on the SAT. Hope Xu, a junior at Uni, accomplished what less than 0.02 percent of test-taking seniors did last year, posting a flawless 2400 on the college entrance exam.

This morning, the County Board of Education honored Rancho San Joaquin Middle School Principal Scott Bowman for his efforts in the 2009 Governor’s Challenge competition, which encouraged students, parents and staff to get active and fit.

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