Due to a drop in student enrollment and expected cuts in funding, Superintendent Wally Cox recommended cutting 45.5 full-time instructional and administrative positions in the 2009-10 budget including 43 (5 percent) school-level teaching positions. ...more

February 26, 2009

With the number of "schools of choice" doubling this year from two to four, more than twice as many elementary students have transferred to another school through the School Choice option. ...more

October 6, 2008

It's red, white and blue and new - it's Memorial Elementary School, the School Board of Highlands County's first brand new school since 1996. ...more

August 15, 2008

Here are the Hillsborough schools projected to be at 95 percent or more of capacity in August that are no longer a choice option for families: ...more

June 25, 2008

Florida public schools are supposed to begin adhering to strict caps on individual class sizes in August when the state's class-size amendment takes full effect. ...more

February 19, 2008