LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board faces a controversial vote Tuesday when it is scheduled to make the final determination on which students will attend two new schools opening in August. ...more

November 17, 2009

Recent tests conducted at two Hillsborough County schools have revealed higher-than-acceptable levels of arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic contaminants in the soil, the district says. ...more

November 14, 2009

The economy has sapped plans for a new charter school in Riverview. The Hillsborough County School Board on Tuesday ended its contract with Imagine School at Riverview, which said it has been unable to secure a lease to open in time for the 2009-10 school year. The school had anticipated 230 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. ...more

May 6, 2009

Florida health officials said this morning that state laboratories testing samples for swine flu have sent three suspected samples to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The samples came from cases in Broward, Lee and Orange counties, they said. ...more

April 30, 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

LAND O' LAKES - When teacher Kylene Nelson was discovered intoxicated in a school parking lot in 2006, Pasco County School District officials decided to give her a second chance. ...more

March 21, 2009

A Pasco County teacher held Wednesday under the state's Baker Act after she was intoxicated at work had been inebriated on school grounds before. ...more

March 20, 2009

Hoping for relief from the state, the Hillsborough County teachers union asked school administrators Thursday to delay decisions that could mean lost wages or lost jobs for hundreds of veteran teachers. ...more

March 20, 2009

It's a practiced art among most middle school boys: passing gas and blaming it on someone nearby. ...more

March 20, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Schools Superintendent Heather Fiorentino has turned to President Barack Obama for assistance after Wachovia Bank more than doubled the fee the school district pays for the letter of credit on a school construction bond issue. ...more

March 18, 2009