Thank you to Marc Valero for his article on the Career Academy. I want to add a comment that should go hand in hand with the quote from Mr. Lemler, "The academy is trying to prepare students, who don't plan to attend a four-year college." The national trend in career academies is to be an alternative route to a four-year college. ...more

October 13, 2008

It used to be that a 4.0 grade-point average was considered a perfect "A," but the numbers posted by some recent Hillsborough high school graduates have been positively stratospheric - including the county's top GPA of 8.68 earned by a student at King High School who was this year's numbers leader. ...more

June 14, 2008

What's an A student to do? The University of South Florida was once considered a backup school for many top college-bound seniors who braced for rejection from the University of Florida or Florida State University. But students such as Gabby Rodriguez are sure of nothing these days. ...more

September 5, 2007