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

Trucking companies should work harder to enforce that their drivers get rest, and the government should move toward mandating the use of alarm systems to alert exhausted truckers, a federal board recommended. ...more

September 18, 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

A state report on district transportation problems and a bus driver shortage identifies issues of the bus driver turnover rate, low driver pay, lack of benefits and incentives. ...more

August 24, 2008

Yesemia Polo wants to get to her classes at Jefferson High School but has missed three of four days this week through no fault of her own, her stepfather said. Mario Cabrera said his 17-year-old stepdaughter, who is starting her junior year at Jefferson, waited at the assigned bus stop at MacDill Avenue and Abdella Street in West Tampa on Monday and Wednesday with six or seven other students. School was canceled on Tuesday because of Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

August 22, 2008

Just before 7 a.m. Monday, Evi Gonzalez and his wife, Marlen, sat waiting for assistance in the Reddick Elementary School office. With them were their sons Ryan, 6, and Evi Jr., 5. The couple thought their children were supposed to go to Cypress Creek Elementary, where Ryan was a student last year. They assumed Evi would be enrolled there but were taken by surprise when they got a notice in the mail. Both boys were to become Reddick students. The Gonzalez family was not the only one confused by the change of assignments. Scores of others encountered similar problems and had to wait in line for help at the start of the school day. But the Reddick support staff swarmed to register the children involved and help parents figure out their transportation needs. ...more

August 19, 2008

The Cambridge Christian baseball team is in the Dominican Republic this week on a week-long trip through SCORE International, an organization that for the past 23 years has taken players overseas on short-term mission trips. The Lancers arrived in the Dominican Republic on Monday and will return home Sunday. ...more