The Plant City Raiders are finally, really, at home this week. And it's a pretty good time for them to be there. ...more

October 22, 2008

Just months before he had a consensual sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female athlete, then-cross country coach Lee Fictum was investigated by campus police for having an inappropriate relationship with the same girl, according to authorities. ...more

October 8, 2008

The members of the current Hernando County School Board may not be sure how to handle a longtime program that teaches kindergarteners how to swim, but school board candidate Gene Magrini is. ...more

October 8, 2008

As anyone who knows anything about K-12 education realizes, a school with an indecisive or less-than-fully competent principal soon finds itself in a bad way. Principals who don't have good assistants, especially at the high school level, will have a hard time doing their jobs. This is why the Pasco County School District is trying to lure more people into its slightly shallow pool of potential principals and assistant principals. ...more

October 1, 2008

Regarding "Terms In Divorce To Change" (Metro, Aug. 31): Removal of contentious words from divorce proceedings sounds like a good idea if you've never been through a divorce involving kids. Change the word "custody" to "shared-parental responsibility" and - poof! - an irresponsible parent becomes more responsible? It's ignorant to believe this. ...more

September 4, 2008

It might not exactly qualify as a miracle, but for its founders, the results of the first year weren't far from one. ...more

August 13, 2008

On a sunny May afternoon, teenagers dismissed from a Beverly Hills middle school gathered outside a restaurant four blocks away and gossiped about their friends. ...more

August 4, 2008

The Pasco County School District is building a high school in the Holiday area that is scheduled to open at the start of the 2009-10 school year. Since the school, per School District policy, is now known only as "High School FFF," it is going to need a less prosaic name. The district is asking the public for suggestions on what the school should be named. The School Board will have the final say on the naming. ...more

July 16, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS - The Police Department's small cadre of school-based officers has been recognized as best in the state by the Florida Association of School Resource Officers. The honor is especially sweet for Tarpon police, who lobbied to have their own officers patrol local schools. Other schools in the county have SROs from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

June 14, 2008

Considering today's technology, it's a wonder those of us who went to school in the 1960s, '70s and before that were able to make it through the day. ...more

June 8, 2008