One woman has spent 35 years as an educator. The other is relatively new to teaching. ...more

November 5, 2009

One woman has spent 35 years as an educator. The other is relatively new to teaching. Both will oversee a $2.2 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation research grant awarded to the Hillsborough County Public Schools district last month. ...more

November 4, 2009

The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

October 26, 2009

Hillsborough County schools have won a $2.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research on what makes teachers effective and students more successful. ...more

October 21, 2009

State budget cuts put an end to summer FCAT retakes, reducing the opportunities for struggling high school students to pass the state assessment test. ...more

November 28, 2008

Falling lottery revenue forced lawmakers on Wednesday to transfer $48 million between trust funds to shore up education spending normally supported by ticket sales. ...more

September 11, 2008

A year is a long time in a child's education, the time it can take to learn cursive writing or beginning algebra. ...more

January 18, 2008

Merit pay can be a powerful motivator for a job well done, but the new merit-pay program for Hillsborough schools has been a fiasco. ...more

September 8, 2007