GAINESVILLE - The cost for Florida to send two extra airplanes to Kentucky for the Gators' 41-7 win last weekend had a minimal impact on its budget - at a cost of $4,055 for the trip to Lexington and back. ...more

October 2, 2009

Hillsborough County is getting two new principals. On Monday, the school board approved the appointments of Gloria Waite as principal of Mabry Elementary and Lynn Roberts as principal at USF/Patel Partnership Elementary. ...more

October 10, 2008

Hillsborough Schools Superintendent MaryEllen Elia will go to Alafia Elementary School to check out complaints after several parents called for the removal of the principal. ...more

October 8, 2008

Hillsborough County School Board members gave initial approval Thursday to guidelines for their out-of-county travel. ...more

August 1, 2008

The Hillsborough County School Board gave initial approval this afternoon on out-of-county travel guidelines for board members. ...more

July 31, 2008

"So what do you do," I asked my schoolteacher wife, "when your entire class gets out of hand? Do you send them down to the principal's office or whack 'em in the back of the neck with a ruler, or do you just have them write down something 500 times on the blackboard?" ...more

July 28, 2008

A school board committee of two assigned to draft travel guidelines became a meeting of four Thursday with an equal number of reporters plus a television cameraman sitting in. ...more

July 25, 2008

Travel spending by Hillsborough school board members has ignited a nasty battle. ...more

July 24, 2008

Travel spending by Hillsborough school board members has ignited a nasty board battle. ...more

July 23, 2008

The Hillsborough County School Board imposed a travel moratorium on itself Tuesday until it can set up both guidelines and a travel budget. ...more

July 16, 2008