Only about four years ago, the state's school districts were adding portable classrooms, building new schools and classroom wings and struggling to find enough teachers to fill all those new classrooms. ...more

December 28, 2009

ORLANDO (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers will be returning to an Orlando middle school to search for World War II explosives that might be buried there. ...more

November 16, 2009

The school board does not want the county to place a moratorium on school impact fees. ...more

October 4, 2009

Well, we have yet another government entity crying for a tax increase. Now it is the school system. ...more

July 16, 2009

Construction is expected to begin this week on a school that will help relieve crowding at Oakstead Elementary and Longleaf Elementary ...more

June 3, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Construction is expected to begin this week on a school that will help relieve crowding at Oakstead Elementary and Longleaf Elementary. ...more

June 3, 2009

Now in its third year, Freshman Foundation data shows mixed progress in improving attendance, grades and discipline, while lowering the dropout rate of the county's ninth-graders. ...more

February 3, 2009

Forty-one-year educator, Avon Park Middle School Principal Dan Johnson, has announced he will retire at the end of the school year. ...more

January 27, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - School principals accustomed to seeing droves of new students show up at their doorsteps experienced something different this academic year. ...more

January 9, 2009

Sebring High School's Freshman Foundation students and teachers started their second semester Tuesday in the school's newest addition - a two-story classroom building with the latest technology. ...more

January 8, 2009