BY SUPERINTENDENT GWEN E. GROSS, Ph.D.  In this era of shrinking state revenue, the Irvine Unified School District has grown accustomed to preparing its annual budgets with worst-case scenarios in mind.

Continuing an annual tradition, the Irvine Teachers Association has announced a handful of scholarship recipients for 2011.

The Irvine Unified School District website has a new look for spring.

A University High School sophomore will participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles in May after wowing a panel of judges during this month's county competition.

A team of Eastshore Elementary School sixth-graders has taken up the cause of banning the sale of shark fins after entering a regional science contest, The Orange County Register reports.

“Kiss the pig! Kiss the pig!” chanted the crowd of Eastshore Elementary School students.

One by one, state Assemblyman Don Wagner fielded questions from his audience of Stonegate Elementary School fifth-graders.

A group of politically astute students from all five IUSD high schools traveled to Sacramento Tuesday to engage in wide-ranging discussions on the budget and other matters of local interest with some of California’s top movers and shakers.