Students, parents, staff and community members gathered in the multipurpose room of Stonegate Elementary School Wednesday to dedicate Irvine Unified's newest campus, which opened in September.

The IUSD school year will be reduced by four days this year as a result of the precipitous drop in state funding, and employee groups have agreed to take eight additional furlough days in 2010-11,

The City of Irvine recently dropped its lawsuit against the Irvine Unified School District over a proposed second district stadium, set to be built at Uni High.

The Northwood High School gym was packed Wednesday evening with some pretty impressive science experiments – and hundreds of very smart students – during the 29th annual Irvine Unified School District Science Fair, sponsored by the

The Irvine Unified Council PTA and a number of state organizations are encouraging parents, staff and community members to wear blue on Thursday, March 4, to show that we are “blue about the budget.” Seems red could have also been a consideration - as in red ink - or perhaps green for the optimists out there.

The Board of Education's scheduled vote on proposed budget reductions for 2010-11 has been postponed until Tuesday, March 16.

The Irvine Public Schools Foundation and some local restaurants are giving you a chance to take a bite out of IUSD's projected budget deficit. On Tuesday, Feb.