Frank Gibbs, executor director of the Heartland Educational Consortium (HEC), has received the Lamp of Knowledge Award, given each year to one person in the state who has made an outstanding contribution to public education. ...more

August 18, 2008

Parents looking for intense programs suited to specific interests have many options in the Hillsborough County School District. ...more

August 1, 2008

Isaac Everett will be starting prekindergarten next month, but the 4-year-old is already learning how to read at the Sebring Public Library. ...more

July 31, 2008

Darla Maraman is still turning out high school grads at a fast-track program that gives dropouts and those at risk of dropping out a new lease on the future. ...more

July 30, 2008

With school grades released Tuesday, officials at one local school are celebrating a particularly large milestone. ...more

July 10, 2008

OFFICIALS AT AREA SCHOOLS CELEBRATE HIGH GRADES ...more

July 9, 2008

Give a gold star to Hernando County schools: The district has earned an overall "A" grade for the first time in the history of the state's A Plus Plan. ...more

July 9, 2008

18 of 20 schools earn A or B grade. ...more

July 9, 2008

For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." ...more

June 22, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." Hardly a week goes by that NPR Homeschoolers, a community organization of home schooling families, doesn't have some sort of a session at the center, usually tapping recreation leader Katie Mac Millen's vast knowledge of nature. Some weeks they are at the park more than once. They even have the occasional overnight event. ...more

June 14, 2008