LAND O' LAKES Pasco County School Board members will deal with more than just their current $8.7 million shortfall when they meet Tuesday in a budget workshop to review the school district's financial woes. The board also will be bracing for a 2009-10 budget year that's expected to be even worse than the current one. ...more

December 12, 2008

When Can We Expect Relief? Just a few months ago oil was at $145 a barrel. Yesterday it closed at $46. Effectively a 68 percent drop. Gasoline was $4 a gallon and is now about $1.83 - a 54 percent drop. ...more

December 6, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Just two weeks before they leave for winter break, teachers and other school employees in Pasco County still don't have a contract for the 2008-09 academic year. ...more

December 5, 2008

A small group of students offered free hugs at Middleton High School on Monday to promote kindness and caring. ...more

December 2, 2008

A small group of students offered free hugs at Middleton High School today to promote kindness and caring. The effort is part of an international tolerance movement, says the Middleton student who started the local effort, Molly McConnell. Today was chosen, she said, because it is the deadline for all school districts to have an anti-bullying policy to comply with a new state law. ...more

December 1, 2008

The Pasco County School Board will talk about additional spending cuts this afternoon. ...more

December 1, 2008

Of the 147,000 public high school graduates in Florida last year, at least 6,500 earned a diploma without ever having passed the 10th-grade FCAT. ...more

November 29, 2008

The state expects a shortage of qualified teachers in math, science, reading and exceptional education, among other high-need subjects, for the 2009-10 school year, according to a state report set to go before Florida's Board of Education next week. ...more

November 25, 2008

With the 2008 hurricane season coming to a close on Nov. 30, Superintendent of Schools Wally Cox has recommended not making up the one day schools were closed due to Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

November 18, 2008

Hernando's teachers would get a 2.4 percent raise this year as part of a tentative agreement reached late Thursday by the union and the school district. ...more

November 8, 2008