BY TERRY L. WALKER, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS The most sweeping educational reform of the nation’s public schools is on its way, and it happens to align nicely with the direction the Irvine Unified School District is already heading.

Students at Westpark Elementary School received a pretty big surprise this week.

First came the district's elementary, middle and

Parents of third-graders enrolled in the fourth-grade APAAS program for the fall are invited to attend a special APAAS Math Night on Thursday, May 9.

  We've got big news this morning out of Plaza Vista School, where Scott Bedley has just been named one of five Orange County Teachers of the Year.

All four of IUSD's comprehensive high schools were recently recognized among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report.

Two years after introducing a new districtwide homework policy, IUSD is encouraging students, parents and teachers to weigh in on the policy’s impact by taking brief online surveys.

A half-dozen IUSD educators will be recognized at next month’s Orange County Music and Arts Education Awards program.