LAND O' LAKES - However you measure it, the Pasco County school district improved its graduation rate in 2008-09 and beat the state average, according to data released Friday by the school district and the state. ...more

December 5, 2009

Though a pending rule change appears to put an end to free breakfast next year in most Highlands County Schools, the district's food service director maintains that breakfast will continue to be available to all students at no charge. ...more

December 3, 2009

Mitchell High School sophomore Stephanie Villatoro braced herself as nurse Cathy Sage prepared to administer the swine flu vaccine last week but, as it turned out, there was no worry. ...more

November 30, 2009

It's the same old story for some, but some educators are getting increasingly nervous about more No Child Left Behind mandates to provide additional resources for schools without additional funds. ...more

November 19, 2009

School board to review new zoning boundaries for district's high schools. ...more

November 14, 2009

After six weeks of studying and working on a performance loosely based on "In the Heights," students from Blake and Leto high schools are ready to put on a show. ...more

November 11, 2009

After six weeks of studying and working on a performance loosely based on "In the Heights," students from Blake and Leto high schools are ready to put on a show. ...more

November 11, 2009

They went on night patrols wearing helmets and full field equipment. They learned how to throw a grenade and dig a trench. They were involved in a deadly nighttime firefight and got as close to action in the Vietnam War as they will ever get. And they did it all from the safety of a local classroom. ...more

November 10, 2009

Parents can soon weigh in on district officials' process of selecting which teenagers will be transferred from Central and Springstead high schools to attend the new school being constructed along U.S. 19 in the northwest part of the county. ...more

November 6, 2009

Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is introducing a new environmental program into the high schools of Hillsborough County called the Keep Our School Beautiful Chapter Program. ...more

November 4, 2009