LAND O' LAKES - Just two weeks before they leave for winter break, teachers and other school employees in Pasco County still don't have a contract for the 2008-09 academic year. ...more

December 5, 2008

A small group of students offered free hugs at Middleton High School on Monday to promote kindness and caring. ...more

December 2, 2008

A small group of students offered free hugs at Middleton High School today to promote kindness and caring. The effort is part of an international tolerance movement, says the Middleton student who started the local effort, Molly McConnell. Today was chosen, she said, because it is the deadline for all school districts to have an anti-bullying policy to comply with a new state law. ...more

December 1, 2008

The Pasco County School Board will talk about additional spending cuts this afternoon. ...more

December 1, 2008

Of the 147,000 public high school graduates in Florida last year, at least 6,500 earned a diploma without ever having passed the 10th-grade FCAT. ...more

November 29, 2008

The state expects a shortage of qualified teachers in math, science, reading and exceptional education, among other high-need subjects, for the 2009-10 school year, according to a state report set to go before Florida's Board of Education next week. ...more

November 25, 2008

With the 2008 hurricane season coming to a close on Nov. 30, Superintendent of Schools Wally Cox has recommended not making up the one day schools were closed due to Tropical Storm Fay. ...more

November 18, 2008

Hernando's teachers would get a 2.4 percent raise this year as part of a tentative agreement reached late Thursday by the union and the school district. ...more

November 8, 2008

Floridians voted for smaller class sizes in 2002, but tough economic times coupled with a statewide budget crisis may delay or halt full implementation of the Class Size Amendment. ...more

October 19, 2008

A political action committee of the second largest teachers' union in the country launched 60-second radio ads Thursday supporting Barack Obama for president in eight battleground states, including Florida. ...more

October 17, 2008