The race for Pasco Superintendent of Schools features two well-qualified candidates in Republican incumbent Heather Fiorentino and her Democratic challenger Stephen Donaldson. ...more

October 25, 2008

as well as longtime school board member Marge Whaley - wants voters to take a leap Nov. 4 and elect an under-qualified teacher as the next superintendent of schools. ...more

October 15, 2008

Democrat Steve Donaldson is seeking to deny Republican incumbent Heather Fiorentino a second four-year term as Pasco superintendent of schools. ...more

October 11, 2008

Candidates will appear for two political forums Tuesday and Thursday staged by the West Pasco Chamber of Commerce. Both debates start at 5 p.m. They will be presented at Pasco-Hernando Community College West Campus, 10230 Ridge Road. For information, call (727) 842-7651. The Tuesday slate features candidates for superintendent of schools, Florida House District 46, Florida Senate District 11 and U.S. House District 5 and District 9. The Thursday slate is clerk of circuit court, supervisor of elections, Pasco County Commission District 3 and District 5 and sheriff. ...more

October 6, 2008

A tractor-trailer driver was on his cell phone when he slammed into a school bus in north Florida, police said Wednesday. A 13-year-old girl died, but officials are crediting heroic passers-by who pulled students off the burning bus with preventing an even bigger tragedy. ...more

September 25, 2008

A tractor-trailer driver was on his cell phone when he slammed into a school bus in north Florida, police said Wednesday. A 13-year-old girl died, but officials are crediting heroic passers-by who pulled students off the burning bus with preventing an even bigger tragedy. ...more

September 24, 2008

At least one student died and eight people were injured Tuesday after a tractor-trailer rear-ended a school bus in an accident in West Central Florida, authorities said. ...more

September 24, 2008

The Pinellas County School Board voted 7-0 this morning to approve a three-year contract to make Janssen the superintendent of schools. ...more

September 23, 2008

After a bit of a lull following the primary, candidates are gearing up for the sprint to the finish line for the Nov. 4 general election. ...more

September 20, 2008

This week, the Pinellas County School Board named Julie Janssen superintendent of schools. The post had been vacant since June, when Clayton Wilcox gave up the superintendent's job and headed off to New York and a job with an educational publishing firm. In his four years in the superintendent's job Wilcox tried to shake up the School District, ruffling a lot of feathers in the process. ...more

September 20, 2008