The Tampa Tribune had a front-page story Oct. 22 about the large number of college students who fail mandatory math classes. The numbers are alarming because the cost to students and our universities for this failure is high. There is a better way to handle this. ...more

October 23, 2009

Thankful At this time of Thanksgiving, I am reminded of how fortunate I was to have been a recent candidate for Hernando County School Board. I would like to extend a warm thank you to all the members of our community that supported me during my candidacy. ...more

November 27, 2008

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

Sen. Barack Obama learned how hard it can be to solve America's public education problems when he headed a philanthropic drive here a decade ago that spent $150 million on Chicago's troubled schools and barely made a dent. ...more

September 13, 2008

Despite a decade of education reform, tens of thousands of Florida's high school students don't read well enough to survive in the work force. ...more

July 1, 2008

Some transportation issues for the children of Wimauma have been overcome due to the help of the Community Foundation of Sun City Center. ...more

November 19, 2007