Sheriff, superintendent: Public should stay alert, too. ...more

September 23, 2008

With 460 school bus stops around the county, it's next to impossible for officials to make sure every child waiting for a ride to school is safe. ...more

September 23, 2008

This week, the Pinellas County School Board named Julie Janssen superintendent of schools. The post had been vacant since June, when Clayton Wilcox gave up the superintendent's job and headed off to New York and a job with an educational publishing firm. In his four years in the superintendent's job Wilcox tried to shake up the School District, ruffling a lot of feathers in the process. ...more

September 20, 2008

Seven months ago, Rudy Crew's peers named him the nation's top school superintendent, bolstering a long-standing reputation as an education innovator. Student achievement in Miami-Dade County's schools has improved during his four-year tenure and the district is consistently a finalist for the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education. ...more

September 12, 2008

An annual memorial ceremony to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Sims Park. ...more

September 6, 2008

County commissioners, a state senator, doctor and other community leaders will encourage children to develop the reading habit during appearances at county libraries next month. ...more

September 3, 2008

Sally Ferrell bounded from the truck and grabbed a poster-board sign that read: "War is not the Answer." ...more

August 30, 2008

For the longest time it seemed as if the only thing passing between Pasco County government and the Pasco School District was bad blood. Yes, the two did make common cause in the successful effort to convince the county's voters to approve the Penny for Pasco sales tax, the lion's share of which the two sides split. Still, they argued for months and months over the issue of how to pay for the impact of the school construction the Penny helps finance on roads and other county infrastructure. ...more

August 27, 2008

The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. ...more

August 27, 2008

When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children. ...more

August 24, 2008