University High Athletic Director Mark Cunningham has been named a 2009-10 CIF Model Coach Award winner – a distinction earned by only 13 coaches in the state.

Just a reminder that Monday, Feb. 15, is a federal holiday in honor of President Washington's Birthday, and that means all Irvine Unified School District campuses and offices will be closed. We’ll see you back at school on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

While Connie Fritsch, Kris Linville and Jeanne Jelnick

And IUSD's High School Teacher of the Year is ... Jeanne Jelnick, the popular English teacher at Uni.

Our next stop is Sierra Vista Middle School, where Kris Linville has just been named IUSD's Middle School Teacher of the Year. This time the reveal came during a mock fire drill.

Connie Fritsch, a second-grade teacher at Northwood Elementary School, has just been named IUSD's Elementary Teacher of the Year. Mrs.

Missed the Feb. 2 meeting of IUSD's Board of Education? You can read the highlights by clicking here.

The state budget crisis continues to take its toll on public education, creating a $23.8 million shortfall for the Irvine Unified School District alone.

The 23rd annual Astounding Inventions contest, presented by Greenberg Traurig LLP and the Irvine Valley College Foundation, will be held this Saturday, Jan. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Irvine Valley College’s Hart Gymnasium.

Did you know there are worms that fight, and that plankton prefers open ocean water to bay water?