LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Stanley R. Mills wrote that Deerwood Academy was overpaid when the district gave the school its per-student funding. The school received $292,863, but didn't enroll enough students to earn that amount and should have been given $199,364, Mills wrote. ...more

June 12, 2008

Hillsborough County's schools are heading into a major change in the way reading and math are taught to more than 85,000 middle and high school students. ...more

May 6, 2008

Angelic House was ecstatic when she learned she could get her storm-damaged home fixed through Hillsborough County's housing rehabilitation program. ...more

February 14, 2008