An innovative educator who led a high-achieving elementary school and developed technology training for Apple has been named the new principal of Brywood Elementary School.

A pair of traveling memorials symbolizing the wartime sacrifices of two generations will be on display through this weekend at Woodbridge Community Park.

An educator with an extensive background in alternative education has been tapped to serve as IUSD’s new director of alternative education and principal of Creekside High School, Superintendent Terry Walker announced Wednesday.

The IUSD Board of Education voted to adopt a budget for the 2013-14 school year on Tuesday night, and for the first time in years the forecast for Irvine and other districts looked relatively bright.

Fifth-graders in Mary Thomas-Vallens’ class at Brywood Elementary School were shocked to read in the newspaper that nearly 500,000 Orange County residents don’t get enough food each month.

Christine Amoroso, who has served as principal at Brywood Elementary School for seven years, has been selected as the next principal of University Park Elementary School, IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker announced Friday.

It’s a whole lot of dirt now, but over the next 15 months this empty plot of land south of Jeffrey Road and east of the Santa Ana (5) Freeway will be transformed into a state-of-the-art campus for Irvine elementary students.