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McLEAN, Va. — The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed straight for her mother.
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The biggest, most diverse and technologically connected generation in American history cares little for political parties, labels or promises they know won't be kept.
John Altizer, who began his teaching career at Hillsborough High School in 1961, is about to call it quits.
Each year, the Tampa Tribune honors the top 3 percent of graduating seniors in public and private schools based on their grade point averages.
In late-November, John Paul and his mom suspected the flu or mononucleosis and headed to a walk-in clinic. Within a day he was in the hospital, being treated as one of the roughly 2.3 million Americans living with Type 1 diabetes.
She went to one student’s home to teach him when he was sick.
The Pasco County School Board could cut nearly 90 jobs and require all employees to take three unpaid furlough days as part of an effort to deal with an anticipated $24.7 million budget shortfall in 2012-13.
The biggest, most diverse and technologically connected generation in American history cares little for political parties, labels or promises they know won't be kept.
About 15 vending machines at Dunedin High School were robbed of cash and damaged during a burglary early today, deputies said.
The University of South Florida is cutting salaries for dozens of its highest-paid faculty members as part of a financial restructuring of its medical school.
Third-grade students in Pasco County slightly outperformed their peers in reading across the state, but fared much worse in math, according to FCAT 2.0 scores released today.
Hillsborough County's third-graders performed slightly higher than the state average in FCAT reading results released today.
Band members' statements to investigators that a Florida A&M University drum major willingly got on a bus where he endured a beating with drumsticks, mallets and fists help explain why prosecutors didn't file more severe charges such as manslaughter and second-degree murder, legal experts say.
A parent says her daughter was forced to sit at a table with special needs students after misbehaving in the cafeteria of a school in south St. Petersburg.
A state Board of Governors' committee got a good look Wednesday at what it will take to replace the USF Polytechnic campus in Lakeland with a new university to be built from scratch.
Fourth-graders across Florida had more to worry about than the pressure of using correct spelling, punctuation and capitalization when they sat down for the FCAT writing test earlier this year.
A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus was known for his opposition to hazing but agreed to go through a brutal initiation ritual because it was seen as an honor, according to interviews with band mates released Wednesday.
State Sen. Evelyn Lynn made a statement when she proposed the bill this year that closes the USF Poly campus and takes its budget to create a new university from scratch in Lakeland.
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Helios Education Foundation have teamed up to turn a $1 million double play for Tampa Bay area students participating in the Take Stock in Children program.
Only Zachery Gray can say what made him try to take his own life a year ago. But brain-damaged and paralyzed from the attempt, Gray can no longer speak.
Cimino Elementary School has character and the award to prove it.
Pasco County teachers and other school employees have ratified their recently negotiated contracts with the school board, but their approval is a grudging one, union officials said.
The Pasco County School Board's town hall meetings on the 2012-13 budget continue tonight when board Vice Chairwoman Cynthia Armstrong is scheduled to hear the public's suggestions on possible areas to cut spending.
A University of South Florida student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, the second case this year at USF, the Hillsborough County Health Department reported today.
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