School board members indefinitely shelved the issue of student uniforms during a workshop on Monday. ...more

March 24, 2009

For the Schroeder children it's another typical day of school, which means they are not in school - they are being home schooled. ...more

November 9, 2008

This year's Junior Achievement Bowl-A-Thon will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 2 at Kegel Bowling Center in Sebring and Royal Palms Bowling Center in Lake Placid. ...more

October 19, 2008

J.D. Floyd will continue as a mini-magnet. That's the direction the Hernando County School Board decided to take Tuesday, leaving the district's middle school environmental program at its current location at J.D. Floyd Elementary School in Spring Hill, instead of relocating it to Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics in Spring Hill or West Hernando Middle School in Brooksville. ...more

February 6, 2008

SEBRING — Wearing goggles and protective aprons, Sebring High School chemistry students grind up Tums and Rolaids tablets with a mortar and pestle. The heartburn remedies are harmless, but the students are using these antacid granules to neutralize hydrochloric acid. It's called titration, which is the process of gradually adjusting the dose of a medication until the desired effect is achieved. State educators are near the end of the process of updating the academic science standards for grades kindergarten through 12. After receiving an "F" grade in a 2005 study, new state science standards have been drafted and could be approved next month. It's a good thing that Florida is reworking its science standards, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The current documents are reasonably well organized but sorely lacking in content. ...more

December 16, 2007