The Hernando County School Board voted 4-1 Tuesday to give Superintendent Wayne Alexander a 5.5 percent pay raise. ...more

May 21, 2008

Faced with public outrage after news broke of a requested raise of nearly 14 percent, Superintendent Wayne Alexander has submitted a counterproposal of nearly 5.5 percent. ...more

May 2, 2008

A Spring Hill teacher's illness may have prevented her from working, but she'll have to prove it first. ...more

February 20, 2008

J.D. Floyd will continue as a mini-magnet. That's the direction the Hernando County School Board decided to take Tuesday, leaving the district's middle school environmental program at its current location at J.D. Floyd Elementary School in Spring Hill, instead of relocating it to Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics in Spring Hill or West Hernando Middle School in Brooksville. ...more

February 6, 2008

Florida's Republican Party chairman took a swipe at Democrats on Saturday during his party's annual meeting, saying they should apologize for disenfranchising voters during the state's primary election. ...more

February 3, 2008

They started off on a good foot. When asked to match four totalitarian leaders to the nations they ruled, Hernando County School Board vice chairman Jim Malcolm hit the buzzer and answered correctly, clenching his fists triumphantly. ...more

January 30, 2008

Safety first. That's the word from the Hernando County School Board, which quickly shot down the chance to cut transportation costs by creating a one-mile limit around schools during a workshop Monday afternoon. ...more

January 29, 2008

Nice study, but the timing is wrong. ...more

January 16, 2008

Longtime school board member and vice chairman Jim Malcolm announced Tuesday that he will not seek a fifth term on the Hernando County School Board. ...more

January 16, 2008

Nice study, but the timing is wrong. That was the message delivered Tuesday afternoon by members of the Hernando County School Board to a roomful of concerned citizens during a workshop in which members opted to ignore a recent recommendation to raise education impact fees. ...more

January 16, 2008