LAND O' LAKES - Work is getting under way on a 16-classroom addition to Pasco Middle School in Dade City. ...more

March 8, 2009

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

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board voted Tuesday to fire a Weightman Middle School teacher with a history of excessive absences. ...more

March 4, 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

Jim Michaels, principal at River Ridge High, is expected to become the new principal at Mitchell High School. ...more

February 25, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - When school officials accused Philip Copeland's son of tossing a bottle out a school bus window on U.S. 41, Copeland asked to see the bus surveillance video that supposedly shows what the teenager did. ...more

February 21, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board will hold off on deciding whether to fire a Weightman Middle School teacher with a history of excessive absences. ...more

February 19, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board approved attendance boundaries for Watergrass Elementary School and Anclote High School Tuesday night. ...more

February 19, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Ric Mellin is the new principal at Land O' Lakes High. The Pasco County School Board approved Mellin's job transfer Tuesday evening from Mitchell High School. ...more

February 19, 2009