During its annual organizational meeting on Tuesday night, the IUSD Board of Education voted unanimously to elect Sue Kuwabara to a one-year term as president and Michael Parham to a one-year term as clerk.

The IUSD Board of Education will convene for its final meeting of 2010 tonight at 7 at the District Office.

The Irvine Company this week presented IUSD with the latest installment of its pledge of more than $20 million over 10 years for enriched curriculum in art, science and music.

The IUSD Board of Education has voted to ratify updated contract agreements with the district's employee associations, rescinding four of eight furlough days for the 2010-11 school year.

At the Nov. 17 Board of Education meeting, Board members approved a retirement incentive for eligible teachers, certified IUSD's First Interim Report and agreed to enter into a historic agreement to establish solar power-producing systems at 21 district sites.

Earlier this month, Dr. Gavin Huntley-Fenner was elected to serve a second full term on IUSD's Board of Education. But that's not the only public service he'll be performing over the next four years.

Sharon Wallin and Dr.

BY SUPERINTENDENT GWEN E. GROSS, Ph.D. This week, bands of heavy rain swept over the Irvine Unified School District, and thunder boomed intermittently. Yet rigorous instruction persevered in the dry confines of our classrooms.

It’s the first Tuesday of October, and that means there’s a meeting of the IUSD Board of Education tonight at 7.

Just a friendly reminder that the Irvine Unified Council PTA is hosting its Candidates Forum for this year's IUSD Board of Education race beginning at 7 p.m. tonight.