With the Hernando County School Board's recent decision to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 — the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard — local officials are banking on the county becoming home to a premier educational program for students with higher-than-average IQs. ...more

February 11, 2008

Transitions aren't necessarily easy. With the Hernando County School Board's decision Tuesday to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 — the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard — the questions from parents have been pouring in. ...more

February 9, 2008

Transitions aren't necessarily easy. With the Hernando County School Board's decision Tuesday to place the district's future centralized gifted education center at Explorer K-8 - the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard - the questions from parents have been pouring in. ...more

February 9, 2008

Gifted education is set to change considerably for students in Hernando County. With the Hernando County School Board's decision Tuesday to place the district's future gifted education center at Spring Hill's Explorer K-8, the new, 2,100-student school set to open this August off Northcliffe Boulevard, there is much to be learned about the gifted program itself. ...more

February 7, 2008

At a workshop Tuesday afternoon, the Hernando County School Board decided against transforming Chocachatti Elementary School in Brooksville from a kindergarten through fifth-grade school into a kindergarten through eighth-grade school. ...more

February 7, 2008

J.D. Floyd will continue as a mini-magnet. That's the direction the Hernando County School Board decided to take Tuesday, leaving the district's middle school environmental program at its current location at J.D. Floyd Elementary School in Spring Hill, instead of relocating it to Challenger K-8 School of Science and Mathematics in Spring Hill or West Hernando Middle School in Brooksville. ...more

February 6, 2008

No one saw it coming. But following hours of heated deliberation at an afternoon workshop Tuesday, Hernando County School Board members switched gears and voted 3-2 against placing the district's future gifted education center at Spring Hill's Challenger K-8 School of Mathematics and Science - and 4-1 for placing it at Explorer K-8, the new 2,100-student school set to open in August off Northcliffe Boulevard. ...more

February 5, 2008

It's decision time. Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 5, 2008

Today, the Hernando County School Board will vote on the location of the county's future gifted education center for kindergarten through eighth grade students. ...more

February 4, 2008

They started off on a good foot. When asked to match four totalitarian leaders to the nations they ruled, Hernando County School Board vice chairman Jim Malcolm hit the buzzer and answered correctly, clenching his fists triumphantly. ...more

January 30, 2008