The School Board of Highlands County will likely vote on two major issues Tuesday – starting an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and letting voters decide how to select the superintendent of schools. ...more

February 24, 2008

A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- A Lakewood High School teacher has agreed to a seven-day suspension after it was discovered he had downloaded pornography on his school-issued laptop computer, according to Pinellas County School Board documents. ...more

February 21, 2008

SEBRING — A new Catholic school is scheduled to open in August in Sebring. St. Catherine Catholic School, which will be based at the St. Catherine Catholic Church, will have classes for pre-kindergarten 3-year-olds through second grade, said Rosemary Bratton, the Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Venice in Florida. This would be the first Catholic school to open in the Florida Heartland. Currently, the closest Catholic schools to Highlands County are in Winter Haven, Lakeland and Port Charolette. The Diocese of Venice decided on opening the school after considering the growing population of Highlands County and the growing number of Catholic families here. Bratton said that St. Catherine's pastor, José González, performed a survey and determined that there was a demand for it. ...more

February 4, 2008

SEBRING — The public can learn more about the pros and cons of an elected versus appointed superintendent of schools today at a 6 p.m. workshop in the Highlands County Commission Chambers. The public's opinion on the issue will also be heard by the School Board. County Supervisor of Elections Joe Campbell has been invited to speak on the election process in changing to an appointed superintendent. If Campbell is attending to matters with the recent election, School Board Attorney John McClure will cover the process in making the change. ...more

January 31, 2008

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. ...more

November 18, 2007

SEBRING — The elected versus appointed superintendent workshop on Tuesday yielded proponents on both sides of the issue and many who are undecided. ...more

November 15, 2007

SEBRING — Opinions were mixed and some people were undecided at Tuesday's school board workshop on whether to continue with an elected superintendent of schools or appoint one. After two education association officials from Tallahassee offered a look at both sides of the issue, the public offered their opinion. ...more

November 14, 2007

A Hernando County School District bus driver spanked a 3-year-old on a bus this month, according to an arrest affidavit. ...more

November 1, 2007

SEBRING — The school board workshop scheduled for Tuesday to discuss the issue of an appointed versus an elected superintendent of schools has been canceled. Florida School Boards Association Executive Director Wayne Blanton, who was to provide the background on the issue, had a scheduling conflict prompting the cancellation. A new workshop date has yet to be determined. A citizen request initiated the school board's interest in reviewing the pros and cons of the two methods of filling the top position in the school district. Currently the superintendent is elected by the county's voters to a four-year term. ...more

October 21, 2007