Not every Hillsborough County student has FCATs today. Plant City schools get a one-day reprieve from the reading, math and science portions of the annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test because of the Strawberry Festival. ...more

March 9, 2010

The Strawberry Festival will give Plant City schools a one-day reprieve from the reading, math and science portions of the annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. ...more

March 8, 2010

It's a short walk from Lisa Couture's Meadow Pointe home to her children's school, Double Branch Elementary. In an ideal world, the half-mile trip would take 15 minutes. But for Couture, who's blind, the situation's not ideal. After counting driveways and groping through the gate of her subdivision, Couture faces a potentially fatal obstacle on her way to the school: Meadow Pointe Boulevard. ...more

January 4, 2010

It's a short walk from Lisa Couture's Meadow Pointe home to her children's school, Double Branch Elementary. ...more

January 3, 2010

It is National School Bus Safety Week and all drivers are reminded to drive carefully and remember school buses make frequent stops with children. ...more

October 21, 2009

CSX railroad crossing repairs at two intersections along U.S. 41 North will require adjustments in bus schedules for five public schools this week. ...more

October 5, 2009

Pasco County school officials and emergency agencies joined forces Friday morning to practice for a scenario they would prefer not to face - a school bus accident with a dead driver and injured students. ...more

March 28, 2009

Pasco County school officials and emergency agencies joined forces this morning to practice for a scenario they would prefer not to face – a school bus accident with a dead driver and injured students. The emergency and school personnel, assisted by 40 student volunteers, played out the mock accident in a Gulf High School parking lot where a day earlier they had turned an out-of-commission school bus on its side to help set the stage. Lt. Brian Prescott, who supervises school resource officers for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, said it was important to run the drill to improve the chances things move smoothly when a real accident happens. ...more

March 27, 2009

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March 23, 2009

"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged a new American openness to ideas from abroad, especially the Muslim world, during a visit Wednesday to Indonesia." ...more

February 27, 2009