Assistance League of Irvine has announced that its annual "Operation School Bell" program will kick off the week of Aug. 12 for year-round schools and the week of Sept. 2 for schools on the traditional calendar.

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

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.

For years, Cox Communications subscribers in Irvine have been able to watch live Board of Education meetings, check out some original IUSD programming and view informational slides by tuning in to the district’s cable station on channel 39.

BY TERRY L. WALKER, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS The most sweeping educational reform of the nation’s public schools is on its way, and it happens to align nicely with the direction the Irvine Unified School District is already heading.

Students at Westpark Elementary School received a pretty big surprise this week.

First came the district's elementary, middle and