It's a game of one step forward, three steps back. In the Hernando County School Board's annual financial audit for 2006-07, released last month, the district has shown major improvement in an area where it has been historically cited. ...more

January 8, 2008

No doubt as Johnnie Schoolfield and Theo Thomas thrashed about in the water in a doomed struggle to avoid drowning, they had to appreciate that while Manatee County emergency services paramedics stood by watching them die, nothing would have pleased the badges more to be able to help were it not for those gosh-darned regulations, policies and procedures obligating them to remain on shore. ...more

January 3, 2008

A University of South Florida internal investigation report released Wednesday showed problems in the way the student affairs division paid some salaries and in how it recruited some managers. The division's leaders, however, mostly stayed true to policies and procedures, investigators say. ...more

December 6, 2007

Mess On Medication Regarding 'Hillsborough Needs To Address School Nurses' Warnings - Stat' (Our Opinion, Oct. 5): ...more

October 6, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - It's homework time as the Pasco County School Board begins the first wholesale revision of its policy handbook in at least three decades. ...more

October 4, 2007