On Sept. 9, IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker issued the following statement on the tragic auto accident that claimed the life of Marie Elizabeth "Lizzie" Johnson, who was entering her junior year at Irvine High School.

If you build it they will come. And if you don’t build it, they will come.

That’s the reality facing IUSD’s facilities team as the district moves forward with plans to construct its fifth comprehensive high school near the northeast border of the Orange County Great Park.

Woodbridge High Principal Jason Viloria will soon be leaving Irvine, having recently been hired as the new executive director of curriculum and assessment for the San Dieguito Union High School District, IUSD Superintendent Terry Walker announced Thursday.

IUSD students continue to outpace their county and state counterparts on standards tests, according to the latest batch of scores released this month by the California Department of Education.

Come Monday, July 29, a new school year will begin for Plaza Vista School, Vista Verde School, Westpark Elementary and Woodbury Elementary.

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.

We're almost halfway through June, and that means graduations are right around the corner.

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.

Last month, more than 40 of Irvine’s brightest teaching stars were honored during the 27th annual Excellence in Teaching Awards Dinner at the Irvine Marriott.