Call it a hall monitor's holiday: Cypress Elementary students walked or ran around during a mostly outdoors school day to raise money for an open-air classroom. ...more

May 7, 2008

SEBRING — High gas and diesel prices have not only strained family budgets, but are challenging the school district's Food Service Department, which is trying to the hold the line on food costs and lunch prices. Food costs for the district have increased about 8 to 12 percent, said Martha Brown, food service coordinator. The district will have to seriously consider raising lunch prices, she said. Last year, the school board tentatively said lunch prices could be raised 25 cents in the fall, but the board would have to review the food service budget to make that decision, Brown added. ...more

May 4, 2008

Ghelder Arriaga wants to make reading fun for kids. That's his job. This year, Arriaga joined the New Port Richey Library as its youth services librarian. ...more

May 4, 2008

the Florida Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. ...more

February 24, 2008

For the third year in a row, the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts will feature works by school-age artists from Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. ...more

February 18, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board gave initial approval Tuesday of attendance boundaries for Crews Lake Middle and Veterans Elementary, two schools scheduled to open in August. ...more

February 6, 2008

An issue that apparently has baffled educators in the Heartland is going to be addressed. The high schools in Highlands, Hardee, Okeechobee, Glades, DeSoto and Hendry counties have posted numerous "C" and "D" accountability grades for the past nine years, but few "B" grades and no "A" grades. There is an apparent disparity in the performance of middle school and elementary students compared to high school students, according to the Heartland Educational Consortium. In one recent year, while the elementary and middle schools received primarily "A, B or C" grades, about one-fourth of the high schools received "D" or "F" grades. ...more

January 2, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Lessons in public speaking and community service came together over a little karaoke. ...more

December 29, 2007

The music thumped, and you could feel your body vibrating along with the bass. ...more

December 1, 2007

Clark Elementary students' jaws dropped when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement helicopter approached to make a landing on the school's baseball field last week. ...more

November 21, 2007