Starting in January, school district officials will be meeting with parents to talk about what's coming as the Hillsborough County school district prepares to set new attendance boundaries. ...more

December 24, 2008

Learning disabilities specialist Dawn Carlson owns a passion for reading. She also owns the Brandon Reading Clinic, located in a historical home on Montclair Avenue. ...more

December 24, 2008

The Hillsborough County school district will hold a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 to discuss attendance boundaries for an elementary school scheduled to open in August near Interstate 4 and McIntosh Road. The meeting on Bailey Elementary School's boundaries will be at the Tomlin Middle School auditorium, 501 N. Woodrow Wilson St. ...more

December 23, 2008

Children and their parents have all sorts of electronic gadgets on their Christmas lists. ...more

December 23, 2008

Schools have gone from an apple a day to Apple computers to even more sophisticated teaching tools. ...more

December 22, 2008

Several of the city's old landfills are buried beneath public schools. Pizzo Elementary, Roland Park Middle School, Lockhart Elementary and Young Middle Magnet School were built on or near land once used to bury Tampa's garbage. ...more

December 21, 2008

Kier Cooper, who has an engineering firm in St. Petersburg, is nearly 28 years removed from the days when he roamed Dad's Stadium as a defensive back for the Plant Panthers. It seems like a long, long time ago. But in some ways, it was yesterday. ...more

December 20, 2008

At a Hillsborough County School District board meeting Dec. 9, Superintendent MaryEllen Elia announced that Ellyn Smith intends to step down from her post as principal at Alafia Elementary School in Valrico by the start of the new semester Jan. 6. ...more

December 17, 2008