The Pasco County School Board is scheduled Tuesday to vote on a contract to buy land for an elementary school that would provide relief to crowding at Oakstead Elementary and Longleaf Elementary. ...more

October 16, 2008

As anyone who knows anything about K-12 education realizes, a school with an indecisive or less-than-fully competent principal soon finds itself in a bad way. Principals who don't have good assistants, especially at the high school level, will have a hard time doing their jobs. This is why the Pasco County School District is trying to lure more people into its slightly shallow pool of potential principals and assistant principals. ...more

October 1, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Transportation once again dominated the discussion at the sixth of seven town hall meetings Superintendent MaryEllen Elia is holding across Hillsborough County. ...more

September 23, 2008

About 250 people crowded into the cafeteria at Burns Middle School on Monday for the second in a series of seven town hall meetings Superintendent MaryEllen Elia called "open mike time." ...more

September 9, 2008

As State Education Commissioner Eric Smith recommends making up missed school days due to Tropical Storm Fay, Superintendent Wally Cox is waiting for the hurricane season to settle before making any makeup day decisions. ...more

September 7, 2008

The school district will not be awarding back pay in the case of a Spring Hill bus driver who was disciplined after spanking a 4-year-old child with special needs on a bus last year. ...more

September 5, 2008

But students may be trading 'undercrowded' for 'overcrowded' ...more

September 4, 2008

With the "10-day count" in and roughly 328 fewer students than expected in Hernando County schools, a record number of students and teachers are also switching schools because of "adequate yearly progress," or AYP. ...more

September 4, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - In the past, charter schools in Pasco County were created when outside groups interested in starting the schools came before the Pasco County School Board to negotiate a contract. ...more

September 3, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Longtime school board member Marge Whaley has endorsed Steve Donaldson, the Democrat and Gulf High School social studies teacher who is trying to unseat Superintendent Heather Fiorentino. ...more

August 30, 2008