The Board of Education on Tuesday discussed how best to use $5.8 million in available state funding for the implementation of the California Common Core instructional standards.

Eighty-three IUSD seniors are in very select company after being named semifinalists for scholarships offered through the National Merit Scholarship Corp.

The location of Irvine’s next high school continued to be a topic of discussion, as the City Council on Sept. 10 voted in favor of a plan that would present an alternative site for the Irvine Unified School District to consider.

A few days before campuses on the traditional calendar re-opened for the 2013-14 school year, IUSD quietly hit a significant milestone: Enrollment climbed past 30,000 students.

On Sept. 9, IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker issued the following statement on the tragic auto accident that claimed the life of Marie Elizabeth "Lizzie" Johnson, who was entering her junior year at Irvine High School.

If you build it they will come. And if you don’t build it, they will come.

That’s the reality facing IUSD’s facilities team as the district moves forward with plans to construct its fifth comprehensive high school near the northeast border of the Orange County Great Park.

Woodbridge High Principal Jason Viloria will soon be leaving Irvine, having recently been hired as the new executive director of curriculum and assessment for the San Dieguito Union High School District, IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker announced Thursday.

IUSD students continue to outpace their county and state counterparts on standards tests, according to the latest batch of scores released this month by the California Department of Education.

Come Monday, July 29, a new school year will begin for Plaza Vista School, Vista Verde School, Westpark Elementary and Woodbury Elementary.