The Irvine High School Choral Department plans to premier three original songs at this week's “Concert in Spring.” The show, set to start at 7 p.m. Thursday at Irvine Presbyterian Church, will feature all five Irvine High choirs, as well as the Venado Middle School choir, performing works by living composers.

April is upon us, and that means Brywood Elementary School is gearing up for its annual BryWorld Multicultural Festival.

For the second year in a row, IUSD has been named one of the nation’s Best Communities for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation.

El Vaquero, Irvine High School’s award-winning student newspaper, recently took second place in the Southern California Journalism Education Association State Write-Offs.

At its March 18 meeting, the IUSD Board of Education voted to certify the Second Interim Report as “positive," meaning the district expects to meet all of its financial obligations for the current year and two subsequent years. That may have been a given, but it's been a while since the state economic outlook was this promising.

IUSD’s planned fifth comprehensive high school was once again the topic of an in-depth discussion at Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting.

March 28 is the deadline to recognize a favorite IUSD staff member through the Irvine Public Schools Foundation’s Parents Appreciating Teachers and Staff program, or PATS for short.

For second straight year -- and the fifth time since 1999 -- Northwood High School has been selected as a Grammy Signature School by the Grammy Foundation.

University High School's theater department is planning to bring "Shrek the Musical" to the stage April 3 through April 5 and April 10 through April 12.

All shows will start at 7 p.m. in Uni’s big theater.