The Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce is hosting a seminar on Florida Ready to Work for area employers on Friday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. Florida Ready to Work is a new employee credentialing program sponsored by the state of Florida and administered by the Florida Department of Education ...more

January 18, 2009

As expected, Nature Coast High School Technical High School band director Timothy Brightbill resigned today. Brightbill, 42, faces charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. The mother of a 17-year-old female student came home on Dec. 31 to find Brightbill and the girl together in her bedroom clad only in their underwear, police said. Brightbill admitted to engaging in sex acts with the girl that day and at his home one day last November, according to police. ...more

January 9, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County School District officials say they have figured out ways to cover the current $8.7 million budget shortfall and much of the $10 million to $15 million shortfall the district could face after the Legislature's special session in January. ...more

December 18, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A social worker at Leto High School won a state award for her work with homeless students. ...more

December 17, 2008

An Avon Park High School teacher was suspended one week in May for asking two students to test the school district's Internet security. ...more

December 4, 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

The school district will face a "big" funding cut in 2009-10, Superintendent Wally Cox said, unless something changes drastically. ...more

November 23, 2008

While the statewide graduation rate improved significantly in 2007-08 compared to the previous year, Highlands County's public school graduation rate dropped. ...more

November 20, 2008

New figures from the state Department of Education indicate more students are graduating from high school and fewer are dropping out. ...more

November 19, 2008