The Pinellas County School Board is close to choosing a new superintendent to replace Clayton Wilcox. ...more

September 8, 2008

The other day the Pinellas County School Board agreed to a student assignment plan that will steer students to schools closer to home beginning with the 2008-09 school year. As a result, the county joins hundreds of other school districts that have been freed from desegregation court orders, most of which seemed to emphasize the co-mingling of black and white students more than the quality of the education they were receiving. ...more

December 26, 2007

The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday delayed final action on a controversial plan that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods. ...more

December 12, 2007

LARGO - The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday delayed final action on a controversial plan that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods. ...more

December 11, 2007

Oliver Brown was angry. His daughter, Linda, had been denied admission to Sumner Elementary, an all-white school four blocks from his house in Topeka, Kan., because she was black. The board of education ordered her to Monroe Elementary, an all-black school two miles away. Worse still, she didn't get bused and had to walk. ...more

December 9, 2007

Back in 2000, the Pinellas County School Board and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund reached an agreement on a school-choice plan that signaled the end to a requirement that schools have a set ratio of black to white students. ...more

November 16, 2007

"Separate but equal" faded as a guiding principle in public education after a U.S. Supreme Court decision five decades ago that forced racial integration. ...more

November 14, 2007