After years of Highlands County schools seeing more students each August, enrollment is down this year, which means the district is bracing for less state funding. ...more

September 4, 2008

Hillsborough schools Superintendent Mary Ellen Elia launches a series of town hall meetings at Hillsborough High School tonight at a time when the district is still wrestling with complaints about new school bus routes. ...more

September 2, 2008

Last year, several public universities in Florida could tout a growing number of minorities in their student bodies. ...more

September 1, 2008

Three elementary schools started the school year with new principals. The Hillsborough County school board appointed the women last spring and summer to open positions at Alexander, Claywell and Woodbridge. ...more

August 27, 2008

Science teacher Janice Robbins made the most of the calm before students arrived last week by stringing shiny red streamers between columns to welcome children to the new Smith Middle School. ...more

August 27, 2008

Science teacher Janice Robbins made the most of the calm before students arrived last week by stringing shiny red streamers between columns to welcome children to the new Smith Middle School. ...more

August 27, 2008

Three elementary schools started the school year with new principals. The Hillsborough County school board appointed the women last spring and summer to open positions at Alexander, Claywell and Woodbridge. ...more

August 27, 2008

More than a year ago, LifePoint Community Church took over a church with a dwindling congregation and rebuilt membership to about 150 worshippers. ...more

August 27, 2008

Highlands County fourth-grades got 72 new students on the first day of school after three-fourths of third-graders who scored low on the reading FCAT last year were promoted after a successful summer camp. ...more

August 26, 2008

Angry parents. Late or missing buses. Lack of time to roll out a new plan. ...more

August 24, 2008