The Pasco County School Board is scheduled Tuesday to vote on a contract to buy land for an elementary school that would provide relief to crowding at Oakstead Elementary and Longleaf Elementary. ...more

October 16, 2008

as well as longtime school board member Marge Whaley - wants voters to take a leap Nov. 4 and elect an under-qualified teacher as the next superintendent of schools. ...more

October 15, 2008

The people behind the 2000 referendum on amending the Florida constitution to place limits on the number of students in public school thought they had a clever way to force the Legislature to spend more money on public education. We've always thought changing the constitution is a bad way to make public policy, but eight years ago voters approved the class size limits. ...more

October 15, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - School officials say class-size requirements scheduled to take effect next year are impractical considering the financial strain school districts are facing across the state. ...more

October 12, 2008

Democrat Steve Donaldson is seeking to deny Republican incumbent Heather Fiorentino a second four-year term as Pasco superintendent of schools. ...more

October 11, 2008

The two candidates for Pasco schools superintendent, meeting in a candidates' forum at Pasco-Hernando Community College, squared off on employee morale, a controversial teaching method and raises for school employees. ...more

October 9, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The bad news that the Pasco County School Board heard Tuesday surprised no one. ...more

October 8, 2008

As anyone who knows anything about K-12 education realizes, a school with an indecisive or less-than-fully competent principal soon finds itself in a bad way. Principals who don't have good assistants, especially at the high school level, will have a hard time doing their jobs. This is why the Pasco County School District is trying to lure more people into its slightly shallow pool of potential principals and assistant principals. ...more

October 1, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School District, worried that retirements could deplete its ranks of principals and other administrators over the next few years, is trying to recruit more people into the leadership positions. ...more

September 28, 2008

Pasco County Schools Superintendent Heather Fiorentino, left, and Veterans Elementary School Principal Donna Busby sing at the school's dedication ceremony Wednesday. At right, Lucianna Alvarez, a member of the Veterans Elementary Super Heroes Chorus, sings with the group in the cafeteria. ...more

September 25, 2008