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

No one saw it coming. But following hours of heated deliberation at an afternoon workshop Tuesday, Hernando County School Board members switched gears and voted 3-2 against placing the district's future gifted education center at Spring Hill's Challenger K-8 School of Mathematics and Science - and 4-1 for placing it at Explorer K-8, the new 2,100-student school set to open in August off Northcliffe Boulevard. ...more

February 5, 2008

It's decision time. Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 5, 2008

Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 4, 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

The Hernando County School Board has some big decisions to make about transportation for children who live within two miles of school. ...more

January 26, 2008

It's time. Today marks the long-awaited day more than 1,000 local student applicants will be assigned random numbers by computer for the lottery drawings to get into Hernando County's magnet schools of Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics, Chocachatti Elementary and Nature Coast Technical High School. ...more

January 25, 2008

It's time. Today marks the long-awaited day more than 1,000 local student applicants will be assigned random numbers by computer for the lottery drawings to get into Hernando County's magnet schools of Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics, Chocachatti Elementary and Nature Coast Technical High School. ...more

January 24, 2008

A popular gym teacher faces a felony charge after police say he was driving on a license with a five-year revocation. ...more

January 18, 2008