The former music teacher and band director at Pasco Middle School faces between 22 and 45 years in prison after admitting Monday to carrying on a sexual relationship with a former student. ...more

January 8, 2008

The "unofficial" hiring freeze at the Hernando County School District is over. ...more

January 5, 2008

Hillsborough Community College students who want an on-campus living experience will get their wish this week. The college's Dale Mabry campus is set to open its first student housing complex, an unusual development for a community college. ...more

January 2, 2008

Arthur Brokop, a young substitute teacher, shut the windowless door of the first-grade classroom he'd been called in to oversee. ...more

December 30, 2007

The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 21, 2007

BARTOW - The parents of a 16-year-old girl who wore a wire to catch a Bartow High School teacher accused of soliciting sex from her were fully aware and supportive of the plan to catch the man, police said. ...more

December 20, 2007

A Middleton High School math teacher told police Tuesday that he smoked a joint on his way to school to cope with the students in his classroom, a police spokeswoman said. ...more

December 12, 2007

TAMPA - Police arrested a Middleton High School math teacher on school property Tuesday after officers found him with a small amount of marijuana in his car, authorities said. ...more

December 12, 2007

Many teachers have seen their share of "best teacher" apple ornaments, paperweights and similar trinkets from students. And after a couple of decades, enough is quite enough. ...more

December 9, 2007

Some Florida school officials have taken offense at a new report from Johns Hopkins University which slammed the state for the high number of high schools it calls "dropout factories," schools where no more than 60 percent of those who start as freshmen complete their senior years and graduate. ...more

November 28, 2007