Three Hillsborough County schools are among 13 targeted for possible closing a year from now because their students have been the lowest performing in the state. ...more

July 29, 2008

It was pandemonium. On what should have been a happy occasion for local students, dozens of angry parents and family members waited outside guarded doors at the Hernando High School gymnasium on Tuesday, clamoring to gain access the graduation ceremony taking place inside. ...more

June 12, 2008

The School Board of Highlands County recently gave the "go ahead" to begin a secondary education Career Academy. The academy will be for 11th- and 12th-grade students. It will be located on the South Florida Community College campus. Students will spend a half day studying their academic subjects. The remainder of the day they will learn a technical/vocational skill. ...more

June 4, 2008

TAMPA - A Lowry Elementary School teacher thought she was taking her class to an assembly on fitness and music. She left $10,000 richer. ...more

May 12, 2008

The School Board of Highlands County will likely vote on two major issues Tuesday – starting an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and letting voters decide how to select the superintendent of schools. ...more

February 24, 2008

A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

SEBRING — A new Catholic school is scheduled to open in August in Sebring. St. Catherine Catholic School, which will be based at the St. Catherine Catholic Church, will have classes for pre-kindergarten 3-year-olds through second grade, said Rosemary Bratton, the Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Venice in Florida. This would be the first Catholic school to open in the Florida Heartland. Currently, the closest Catholic schools to Highlands County are in Winter Haven, Lakeland and Port Charolette. The Diocese of Venice decided on opening the school after considering the growing population of Highlands County and the growing number of Catholic families here. Bratton said that St. Catherine's pastor, José González, performed a survey and determined that there was a demand for it. ...more

February 4, 2008

SEBRING — The public can learn more about the pros and cons of an elected versus appointed superintendent of schools today at a 6 p.m. workshop in the Highlands County Commission Chambers. The public's opinion on the issue will also be heard by the School Board. County Supervisor of Elections Joe Campbell has been invited to speak on the election process in changing to an appointed superintendent. If Campbell is attending to matters with the recent election, School Board Attorney John McClure will cover the process in making the change. ...more

January 31, 2008

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. ...more

November 18, 2007