TAMPA -- About 2,200 high school students in northwestern Hillsborough are scheduled to change schools in August, but the moves will do nothing to ease crowding at Chamberlain High School. The school board on Tuesday approved boundary changes for Sickles, Alonso and Gaither, lowering enrollment enough at those three schools to bring them under capacity. Sickles and Gaither will send students to Steinbrenner High School, which is opening in Lutz. ...more

February 11, 2009

As Florida school districts face the most pressing financial crisis in modern history, an opportunity has once again surfaced that would help level the playing field of school governance with the other 49 states. ...more

February 8, 2009

Pasco County School Board member Kathryn Starkey has announced her candidacy for the Florida House of Representatives seat that will be vacated in 2010 when term limits keep state Rep. Tom Anderson from running again. ...more

February 5, 2009

Now in its third year, Freshman Foundation data shows mixed progress in improving attendance, grades and discipline, while lowering the dropout rate of the county's ninth-graders. ...more

February 3, 2009

Regarding the dire and desperate state of our financial educational budget, as a concerned citizen I suggest the following: ...more

February 1, 2009

Students at a central Florida high school sit in the gym when their teachers are absent because there's no money to pay substitute teachers. ...more

January 31, 2009

Hundreds of students will travel longer distances to school now that the Hillsborough County School Board has signed off on new attendance zones. ...more

January 28, 2009

Hundreds of students will travel longer distances to school now that the Hillsborough County School Board has signed off on new attendance zones. ...more

January 27, 2009

Highlands County School Board members have been fielding phone calls from parents who are upset with a proposed doubling of the number of early release days from 10 to 20. ...more

January 25, 2009

The subject was bound to come up Tuesday. The school board's full day of meetings marked the first time the board had come together since Superintendent Wayne Alexander's job search became public. ...more

January 21, 2009