Fifteen students from Irvine, Northwood, University and Woodbridge high schools have earned prestigious scholarships through the National Merit Scholarship Corp., the

A Rancho San Joaquin Middle School eighth-grader has emerged as one of 60 semifinalists in the inaugural Google Science Fair, which is asking voters to select its People’s Choice Award winner.

Continuing an annual tradition, the Irvine Teachers Association has announced a handful of scholarship recipients for 2011.

One by one, state Assemblyman Don Wagner fielded questions from his audience of Stonegate Elementary School fifth-graders.

A group of politically astute students from all five IUSD high schools traveled to Sacramento Tuesday to engage in wide-ranging discussions on the budget and other matters of local interest with some of California’s top movers and shakers.

Last year, we told you about a number of service-learning projects taking place throughout IUSD, made possible by a three-year, $86,000 state grant and a unique collaboration with the nonprofit group Team Kids.

Hundreds of Irvine third-graders are about to find themselves short on excuses for misspelled words. That's because the Rotary Club of Newport-Irvine plans to donate more than 800 Webster student dictionaries to third-grade students at nine IUSD schools.

Wooden recycling bins are now stationed in the lunch area at Sierra Vista Middle School, thanks to an enterprising student pursuing the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank.

Woodbridge High School’s athletic boosters have established a scholarship in honor of the late English teacher and wrestling coach Kent “K.J.” Bentley. The award, to be presented in June, will recognize a graduating male athlete and a graduating female athlete from Woodbridge.