LAND O' LAKES - Superintendent Heather Fiorentino says the Pasco County School District is headed in the right direction and wants voters to give her another four years to build on her successes. ...more

October 26, 2008

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

The heart of the campaign season brings lots of questions, some terrific, some irrelevant, most of them pertaining to the issues at hand. Consider the race for Pasco County schools superintendent, in which two bright, accomplished and politically savvy candidates are in a showdown over nothing less than the trajectory of public education in Florida's 11th-largest school district. ...more

October 24, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - United School Employees of Pasco declared an impasse Tuesday in contract negotiations with the Pasco County School District, setting the stage for a third party to intervene. ...more

October 22, 2008

United School Employees of Pasco declared an impasse Tuesday in contract negotiations with the Pasco County School District, setting the stage for a third party to intervene. The union notified the state's Public Employees Relations Commission, which means a special master will be assigned to conduct a hearing and make a recommendation to the school board. The union declared the impasse after the school district cancelled a negotiating session scheduled for Wednesday, Lynne Webb, president of the union, said in a statement. Two months into the school year, negotiators have been unable to reach an agreement on raises, step increases or other contract issues. ...more

October 21, 2008

Pasco County voters have a chance Nov. 4 either to bring new faces to government or reward those already there with another term. ...more

October 19, 2008

Veterans Protest Council Leader Veterans packed City Hall on Monday to protest one of their own, City Council President Luis Lopez. ...more

October 19, 2008

The Pasco County School Board is scheduled Tuesday to vote on a contract to buy land for an elementary school that would provide relief to crowding at Oakstead Elementary and Longleaf Elementary. ...more

October 16, 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

The people behind the 2000 referendum on amending the Florida constitution to place limits on the number of students in public school thought they had a clever way to force the Legislature to spend more money on public education. We've always thought changing the constitution is a bad way to make public policy, but eight years ago voters approved the class size limits. ...more

October 15, 2008