Jeb Bush isn't content to have remade Florida's education system. Now, the former governor is grading lawmakers on how well they continue to follow his lead. ...more

September 19, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama learned how hard it can be to solve America's public education problems when he headed a philanthropic drive here a decade ago that spent $150 million on Chicago's troubled schools and barely made a dent. ...more

September 13, 2008

Money will not solve our lack of educational excellence. ...more

August 29, 2008

Solving Florida's housing crisis may rest on the shoulders of the state's senior citizens. ...more

August 25, 2008

Try Universal Curriculum I read with interest Dan Lips' column "What's Missing From Schools" (Other Views, Aug. 16): ...more

August 23, 2008

Back in 2000, Charlie Crist and George Sheldon slugged it out in a race for Florida's education commissioner. But both men being the type to let bygones be bygones, Sheldon now serves as the governor's interim secretary for the Department of Children and Families. ...more

August 23, 2008

As part of an effort to increase civic engagement in schools in Hillsborough County, high school students are reaching out to their parents and communities this week to get them registered to vote. ...more

August 15, 2008

A new church is rising on an 18-acre tract on the south side of Van Dyke Road, just east of Gunn Highway. ...more

August 13, 2008

Regarding "3 Area Schools Targeted For Closing" (front page, July 30): Closing three "failing" schools is a bit like one ancient culture's practice of whipping a certain large stone in the village center whenever there was a crop failure. ...more

July 31, 2008

With the economy faltering, local social services agencies are preparing to help more children than ever in need of free school supplies. ...more

July 30, 2008