NEW PORT RICHEY For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." Hardly a week goes by that NPR Homeschoolers, a community organization of home schooling families, doesn't have some sort of a session at the center, usually tapping recreation leader Katie Mac Millen's vast knowledge of nature. Some weeks they are at the park more than once. They even have the occasional overnight event. ...more

June 14, 2008

Science scores climbed at most schools this year, which could be good news when it comes to school grades. ...more

June 11, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- For several local home-schooled children, Starkey Environmental Education Center in Jay B. Starkey Wilderness Park is kind of a "school away from school." Hardly a week goes by that NPR Homeschoolers, a community organization of home schooling families, doesn't have some sort of a session at the center, usually tapping recreation leader Katie Mac Millen's vast knowledge of nature. Some weeks they are at the park more than once. They even have the occasional overnight event. ...more

June 6, 2008

When West Hernando Middle School teacher Kevin McManus decided to pursue a mural project on the famed Florida Highwaymen, he gained a new appreciation for how difficult it can be to recreate lucrative artwork. ...more

January 31, 2008

More than 450 students and staff celebrated the 100th anniversary of Lomax Elementary School this month. ...more

December 26, 2007

With 21,000 volunteers working in the Pasco County school system, picking three as outstanding is no easy task. ...more

December 15, 2007

OSPREY - Sarasota's exclusive school for gifted students earned a Top 10 spot in a new U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation's high schools. ...more

December 4, 2007

TAMPA - Patrick Cannizzaro tells the fourth-graders around him that they've been brushing their teeth with algae all their lives. ...more

November 25, 2007

The Career Academy at South Florida Community College, opening in August, will be a high school and technical education facility serving 10th, 11th and 12th graders. ...more

October 14, 2007

County Commissioner Ann Hildebrand and others modeled outfits from an area department store as an invisible cash register rang up funding for the PACE Center for Girls. ...more

October 11, 2007