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Education

Most of Irvine is located in the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD). The five high schools in IUSD are University High School, Irvine High School, Northwood High School, Woodbridge High School, and Portola High School. Arnold O. Beckman High School is located in Irvine but is administered by Tustin Unified School District. The five high schools in IUSD, as well as Beckman High School, have consistently placed in the upper range of Newsweek's list of the Top 1,300 U.S. Public High Schools.

Irvine is also home to elementary and middle schools, including two alternative, year round, open enrollment K-8 schools, Plaza Vista and Vista Verde.Parts of the north and west of the city are within the Tustin Unified School District.

Irvine is home to the University of California, Irvine, which is the second-newest campus (established 1965) in the UC system after University of California, Merced. Other higher education institutions in Irvine include California Southern University, Concordia University, Westcliff University, Paramount California University a distance learning university, Irvine Valley College, Fuller Theological Seminary, FIDM, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Orange County Campus, Stanbridge University, and a satellite campus of California State University, Fullerton. Chapman University and Soka University of America are in adjacent cities.

The Irvine Unified Council PTA (IUCPTA) will host a candidates forum for the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) Board of Education Trustee Area 2 on Wednesday, October 17 at 7 p.m. at the IUSD District Office, located at 5050 Barranca Parkway, Irvine. This free event is open to the public and will also be broadcast live on Cox Channel 39, AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live from iusd.org.  

This year, three candidates are running for one seat. They are: Governing Board Member Sharon Wallin; Retired Irvine Teacher Jean Anne Turner; Tutor Ilya Tseglin. 

During the forum, each candidate will have the opportunity to make a statement and answer uniform questions presented by an unbiased moderator from the League of Women Voters. The questions were developed by the Irvine Council PTA Executive Board. There will also be a limited amount of time for questions from attendees.

IUCPTA, which comprises of more than 13,000 members from 40 individual PTA units, has traditionally invited school board candidates to share their views in advance of local elections. “We are proud to host the Candidates Forum for the upcoming School Board election,” said IUCPTA president Mary Kelly. “An important aspect of the PTA mission is advocacy. Bringing all the candidates together allows us to engage our parents in the legislative process and hear the candidate’s solutions to the issues that impact both our PTA parents and students.”

Note: Governing Board Member Ira Glasky is running unopposed in Trustee Area 4 and will not participate on the panel.  Click here to view the IUSD Trustee Area Map.