By all indicators, Raquel Torres should be cleaning houses. And that's only if she had stayed out of a drug gang. ...more

November 1, 2009

Hundreds of people waited in line for hours Saturday for the chance to apply to become jailers with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 25, 2009

The students who graduated from Simmons Career Center May 27 have good reason to be excited about their recent accomplishments, school officials said. ...more

June 10, 2009

William "Charles" Wilson had already dropped out of school and was an 18-year-old ironworker when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. The Army made him a demolition expert and sent him out to blow up bridges and enemy tunnels, but he never got a high school diploma. ...more

March 25, 2009

High-school students would have to pass the FCAT and higher-level math and science courses to receive diplomas under a plan Republicans are pushing in the state House and Senate. ...more

March 18, 2009

President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers Tuesday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers. ...more

March 10, 2009

At a nondescript building near the corner of Armenia and Sligh avenues, dozens have sought salvation from the darkening economy in adult education. ...more

February 28, 2009

With unemployment rising, they and hundreds more out-of-work adults in Hillsborough County are swamping adult education classes to prepare for the General Educational Development test or to strengthen their English-speaking skills. ...more

February 27, 2009

Some schools deemed to be failing in one state would get passing grades in another under the No Child Left Behind law, a national study found. ...more

February 19, 2009

17 million black people strong - poised to weather the difficult economic times ahead. ...more

February 16, 2009