LAND O' LAKES - When teachers and parents decided they didn't like all the shifting around that's been happening with high school principals, they decided to ask the Pasco County School Board to intervene. ...more

March 7, 2009

Drama students at Mitchell High will take to the stage tonight for a production of "Peter Pan," but even as they perform the high-flying musical there are concerns about the future of the school's drama department. ...more

March 5, 2009

Drama students at Mitchell High will take to the stage tonight for a production of "Peter Pan," but even as they perform the high-flying musical there are concerns about the future of the school's drama department. Mitchell High is losing several hundred students when Anclote High opens in Holiday in August and that is forcing changes in some of the class offerings at the school. Nick Simons, 17, a junior, said he worries the changes could mean the end of drama at Mitchell. "It would be a great disappointment," Simons said. It may be premature to start burying theater productions at Mitchell just yet, though. Principal Ric Mellin said drama class offerings could be scaled back, depending on how enrollment numbers end up, but the administration wants to keep the elective. ...more

March 4, 2009

Some members of this year's senior class will have to delay starting college or work because of state cost-cutting efforts. ...more

November 13, 2008