The Hernando County School Board was recognized as a "master board" on June 12 in Tampa at the Florida School Board's Association annual spring conference. ...more

June 25, 2008

It may be costly, but at least two school board members say local teachers have every right to ask for a 5.5 percent raise. ...more

June 25, 2008

The Hernando County School Board voted 4-1 Tuesday to give Superintendent Wayne Alexander a 5.5 percent pay raise. ...more

May 21, 2008

Faced with public outrage after news broke of a requested raise of nearly 14 percent, Superintendent Wayne Alexander has submitted a counterproposal of nearly 5.5 percent. ...more

May 2, 2008

A Spring Hill teacher's illness may have prevented her from working, but she'll have to prove it first. ...more

February 20, 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

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

Safety first. That's the word from the Hernando County School Board, which quickly shot down the chance to cut transportation costs by creating a one-mile limit around schools during a workshop Monday afternoon. ...more

January 29, 2008

Nice study, but the timing is wrong. ...more

January 16, 2008