They know the alphabet, can read and write a bit and fit right in with a challenging first year in school - they are the students in the pilot advanced academics kindergarten program. ...more

November 13, 2009

Kasey Lynch brought along a bit of improvisational experience when he joined Woodland Elementary School's Drumming for Dreams program. ...more

October 25, 2009

Step Up For Students is making available applications for private school vouchers for the 2009-10 school year. ...more

April 25, 2009

The program Step Up For Students now is making applications for private school vouchers available for the 2009-10 school year. ...more

April 24, 2009

Thirty-one blind students from nine counties converged in South Tampa on Thursday to compete in the Central Florida Regional Braille Challenge. ...more

February 28, 2009

The county has announced the winners of the "I Voted" sticker contest. They are: ...more

November 19, 2008

In 2012, Tanayah Johnson sees herself teaching first grade in a Georgia school. ...more

August 27, 2008

The first day of school meant changes for some of Hillsborough County's struggling sites. ...more

August 19, 2008

Advanced Academics will be offered for the first time in the first-grade in the upcoming school year. ...more

July 28, 2008

EUGENE, Ore. -- John Capel credits his 8-year-old daughter, Janya, with keeping him honest. After Capel, who served a two-year suspension from track for smoking marijuana, ran his opening-round 200-meter race Friday in the US Olympic Track and Field Trials, he said his daughter keeps on him about staying out of trouble. ...more

July 5, 2008