With the help of a $45,000 Florida Learn & Serve Grant, Gulf High School reading coach Victoria Mudry has spread the word about hurricane preparedness among her students and Pasco County. ...more

November 11, 2007

Webb Middle School Principal Carmen Aguero was under investigation for missing school money when she retired earlier this fall, citing health reasons, according to school district records. ...more

November 6, 2007

The Highlands County School District should be thankful that none of its schools have ended up on a dubious federal list of "drop out factories," schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. But that's no cause to celebrate. Even though the dropout rate at Highlands' schools is nowhere as bad as the 150 state schools gracing the list, a greater percentage of students are dropping out of high school in Highlands. ...more

November 5, 2007

SEBRING — Florida ranked second in the nation with 51.1 percent of its public high schools showing excessive dropout rates, but no schools in Highlands or surrounding counties made the list of "Dropout Factories." The state's public high schools have some of the worst student retention rates in the country, with half qualifying as "Dropout Factories," four times the national average, according to a new analysis of U.S. Education Department data conducted by Johns Hopkins University. The term dropout factory, coined by Hopkins researcher Bob Balfanz, describes schools where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. ...more

November 3, 2007

Natural Impossibility It's one thing to throw a tub of letters randomly on the ground and have them spell out some words. It's quite another to have them result in a complete Shakespeare play! ...more

November 3, 2007

Florida's public high schools have some of the worst student retention rates in the country, with half qualifying as "Dropout Factories," four times the national average, according to a new analysis of U.S. Education Department data. ...more

November 2, 2007

Few problems in public education are as vexing as the achievement gap between white and minority students, so it's worth celebrating when two local schools show the gap can be erased. ...more

October 22, 2007

Strong performances on standardized tests earned Miles Elementary and Egypt Lake Elementary schools state recognition this week. ...more

October 6, 2007

Student Denzel Washington carefully sorted the colorful beads with classmate Rashone Mills. ...more

September 29, 2007