Just a reminder that tonight's Board of Education meeting will kick off a half-hour earlier at 6:30 p.m.

The California Legislature adopted a budget this week that calls for flat funding for K-12 education, but schools remain vulnerable to midyear cuts that would be automatically triggered if an anticipated spike in revenue doesn’t materialize.

The IUSD Board of Education voted unanimously this week to adopt a budget for 2011-12, and, in the same motion, directed staff to forward all appropriate documents to the Orange County Department of Education.

Unless you were around for the end of Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting, you may not be aware that board members authorized issuing $25 million in school construction bonds, which will be subsidized in part through a federal stimulus program designed to spur shovel-ready construction projects.

The IUSD Board of Education has unanimously approved a name for Irvine’s next middle school.

The IUSD Board of Education approved the second reading and adoption of a revised districtwide homework policy on Tuesday night.

This week, Governor Jerry Brown released his latest budget plan for 2011-12, and although there was some potentially good news in the form of increased state revenue, the impact on K-12 education remains uncertain.

At Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting, attorney Mark Bresee presented an update on the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against the state of California over impermissible stud

IUSD school board member Sharon Wallin has earned the Orange County School Boards Association’s highest honor – the prestigious Marian Bergeson Award.

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.