One woman has spent 35 years as an educator. The other is relatively new to teaching. ...more

November 5, 2009

One woman has spent 35 years as an educator. The other is relatively new to teaching. Both will oversee a $2.2 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation research grant awarded to the Hillsborough County Public Schools district last month. ...more

November 4, 2009

Former middle school teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can again have unsupervised contact with children, a judge ruled Thursday. ...more

October 30, 2009

A judge is expected to decide today whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children. The former English teacher at Greco Middle School teacher is asking to be allowed around a limited number of children of her family and friends as long as she is supervised and the parents of each child agree. ...more

October 29, 2009

The public will begin picking up the defense tab for Stephanie Ragusa, a former Hillsborough County middle school teacher accused of having sex with two students. Circuit Judge Wayne S. Timmerman granted a request today by Ragusa's attorney, Robert Herce, to have his client declared indigent. Prosecutors did not object. ...more

September 30, 2009

It will be until September before a new trial date will be set for Stephanie Ragusa. The former Davidsen Middle School teacher had been set to be tried Aug. 10 on charges of molesting two teenagers from the school. But defense attorney Robert Herce and Assistant State Attorney Rita Peters said today that there is still too much pretrial work remaining to meet that date. ...more

July 8, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - A middle school teacher who was accused of being drunk in her classroom last week has resigned, the Pasco County School District reported Friday. ...more

March 28, 2009

TAMPA A bill proposed by Armwood High students passed 7-0 today through its first state House committee stop. ...more

March 27, 2009

A middle school teacher who was accused of being drunk in her classroom last week has resigned, the Pasco County School District reported today. ...more

March 27, 2009

Pasco County School District officials were finishing up interviews this week in the case of a Rushe Middle School teacher accused of being intoxicated in her classroom, Superintendent Heather Fiorentino said. ...more

March 25, 2009