K.C. Jones and Ann Richards of Largo bring their wacky musicality back to Pasco this morning as part of the Florida Library Youth Program. ...more

July 16, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - These race cars are fashioned from a block of wood, four plastic wheels and four nails. ...more

July 7, 2008

We writers live "surrounded by a cloud of witnesses." When I was 10 years old my family moved from the city to a tiny country town where the school was overcrowded, so all fifth graders - me included - attended an old-fashioned, one-room school. The teacher, Rhea O'Grady, had taught eight grades in that room for 40-some years. She was 74 and shorter than some of her students, but she ruled the classroom like a drill sergeant. The first day I eagerly slid into a seat in the second row just left of the middle. Mrs. O'Grady peered at me over her wire-rimmed glasses and jerked her head toward the other side of the room. My fellow students giggled and whispered as I sheepishly crossed the aisle. Apparently, I was the only one who didn't know that in "Old Lady O'Grady's" class, boys sat on the left, girls on the right. When it was time for recess, Mrs. O'Grady followed us outside with a huge canvas bag which she turned upside down. Out poured baseballs, softballs, and several bats. ...more

June 28, 2008

TRINITY - School is out for the summer, a time when many youngsters hit the playgrounds, spend even more time playing video games or just generally goof off. But not 10-year-old Claudia Sille. The youngster has become a "Rotary junkie," her parents Rob and Kathryn "Kat" Sille say with a chuckle. ...more

June 18, 2008

Local administrators and teachers celebrated Tuesday with the release of the last batch of the district's Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test scores, which show significant gains since last year at several area schools. ...more

June 11, 2008

Teacher Marisol LaCosta read aloud to a group of kindergartners and first-graders Wednesday morning at Double Branch Elementary School. ...more

June 5, 2008

SEBRING — With the whole school assembled at the bus loop at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, something special had to be in store for the Woodlawn Elementary students and teachers. Cheers and applause erupted when they spotted a horse-drawn carriage with three special passengers – retiring teachers Carol Todd and Freda Hoffman and Assistant Principal Laura Waldon, who is departing to be principal of Fred Wild Elementary School. "Isn't this exciting," Woodlawn Elementary Principal Kaye Bowers said as the retirees and Waldon prepared for the carriage ride around the school. ...more

June 4, 2008

Learning Gate Community School, which sits on 27 wooded acres, isn't your typical school. ...more

June 4, 2008

A group of fourth- and fifth-graders from Marlowe Elementary School will take on the world in a couple of days, and as they do, they can take with them a reminder that the folks back home are behind them. ...more

May 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County students continue to perform better in reading and mathematics than most of their peers across the nation, according to Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test results announced Thursday. ...more

May 28, 2008