After five years in the role, Christiana Kraus will not return as the principal of Los Alamitos High School for the upcoming school year. The Los Alamitos Unified School District ...

The team from Parks Junior High School celebrates after winning the Fullerton School District's first K-Pop Battle of the Bands finale. Photo by Jeannette Andruss On a recent evening at an outdoor ...

Spotlight Schools is passionate about delivering hyperlocal education news from across Orange County. And now there is a day to celebrate that effort. April 9, 2026, is the first-ever Local News Day ...

Westminster High School senior Timmy Tran displays the pennant for his future college. Courtesy photo. Timmy Tran is one of the thousands of seniors in Orange County preparing for one of the biggest ...

L-R: Erin Bro, Jeannette Aguilera, Megan Lee, Darcy Blake, Tracy Havens and Christine Reinhardt-Zacair are Orange County's 2026 Teachers of the Year. You’re an Orange County Teacher of the Year! That ...

Alpha School co-founder MacKenzie Price speaks at an information night on July 10 in Costa Mesa. (Photo by Jeannette Andruss) A private school network from Texas that utilizes artificial intelligence ...

In Trustee Area B, current city councilman, and spouse of the current board president is running to replace her, facing a parent endorsed by the teachers' union. In Trustee Area C, an incumbent is ...

Rachel H. Monárrez, Ph.D., started her job as Superintendent of the Orange Unified School District on July 1. (Photo courtesy OUSD) After years with interim leaders and divisions on its Board of ...

Within the past few years, requirements to take the SAT and ACT, once seen as the deciding factor in college admissions, have been changing. When COVID-19 emerged, many schools decided to go ...

Painting a mural at Murdy Elementary School. Photo by Emily Henderson. It is late spring, but the sun is beating down like it is already mid-July. There is, luckily, a breeze coming from the distant ...

This November, two incumbents are not seeking reelection to the five-member board that governs nine schools. Four newcomers are running for the two seats. Two incumbents on the Los Alamitos Unified ...