Mayor Pam Iorio will mark Earth Day by unveiling a new recycling program today. Working with the Tampa Downtown Partnership, the city will place 20 receptacles for recycling plastic and aluminum throughout downtown and the Channel District. Dozens of green receptacles will be placed along well-traveled pedestrian corridors. ...more

April 22, 2009

If not, there's always math, English or science listed among the various high school majors the Hillsborough County School Board will consider at its meeting tonight. ...more

April 21, 2009

Whether the Boys & Girls Club of Highlands County can keep its doors open past the first week of June depends on the success of its new fundraising campaign. ...more

April 1, 2009

Friends of Animal Services Inc. wants to make sure youngsters learn early that four-legged creatures require and deserve protection and compassion from people. To this end, the nonprofit group that supports Pasco County Animal Services, is hosting a fundraiser that will raise money for itself while providing educational materials for area schools. ...more

April 1, 2009

35% Increase in the number of substitute teacher applications in Hillsborough County since March 2008 ...more

March 26, 2009

Pasco County School District officials were finishing up interviews this week in the case of a Rushe Middle School teacher accused of being intoxicated in her classroom, Superintendent Heather Fiorentino said. ...more

March 25, 2009

A citizens panel that advises the Hillsborough County School Board recently weighed the district's proposed budget cuts - and came up with some ideas of its own. ...more

March 25, 2009

A citizens panel that advises the Hillsborough County School Board recently weighed the district's proposed budget cuts – and came up with some ideas of its own. ...more

March 24, 2009

A Pasco County teacher held Wednesday under the state's Baker Act after she was intoxicated at work had been inebriated on school grounds before. ...more

March 20, 2009

America's educational system is a mess. We have students slipping through the cracks, failing to perform and flat out getting through without possessing the basic knowledge they need to succeed. It has become a tradition of sorts for each new president to address this issue with a nationalized plan for reform. I usually don't agree with very much that comes out on the national level, dictating to the masses, but sometimes I actually do. ...more

March 18, 2009