The Hernando school district will soon be leaner. A split school board on Monday night voted 3-2 to approve a staffing reduction plan that cuts 201 instructional and support positions, among other measures, to trim next year's budget by about $11.6 million. ...more

March 25, 2009

Secondary teachers voiced their opposition at Tuesday's school board budget workshop to a proposed schedule change requiring educators to teach seven consecutive class periods. ...more

January 22, 2009

Special education students at Cotee River Elementary took the lead role recently in teaching the rest of the student body about the presidential election. ...more

November 3, 2008

School officials learned of concerns that Venice Elementary School teacher Diana O'Neill was too rough with her special education teachers as early as 2005, three years before she was arrested on child abuse charges. ...more

August 11, 2008

Call It Like It Is Regarding "Egos Hit Head-On At School Board's Travel Policy Meeting" (Metro, July 25): ...more

August 2, 2008

The traffic accident that sidelined Cheryl Salyer didn't slow down her dream of becoming a teacher. ...more

July 31, 2008

Hernando County school board member John Sweeney is spearheading an effort to save Florida's taxpayers millions of dollars while increasing the pay for many of the state's teachers. ...more

July 1, 2008

School board member's plan aims to save money, give teachers options ...more

June 30, 2008

'Super Crunchers,' by Ian Ayres (Bantam, $25) This book makes a strong argument that super crunching, the use of huge amounts of statistical data to predict an outcome, is challenging the ages-old dependence on human experience and expertise. ...more

October 7, 2007