A fraction signed up for it and even fewer made it through the process Monday as Hillsborough County schools extended its vaccination program to students at select high schools and middle schools. ...more

October 27, 2009

Hillsborough County schools have won a $2.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research on what makes teachers effective and students more successful. ...more

October 21, 2009

A morning news radio show blasted Hillsborough County schools Tuesday after learning in an e-mail that Fox News Channel was dropped from televisions at a school in Brandon. ...more

October 21, 2009

This month marks the retirement of Stevie Brownlee, capping four decades as a teacher for Hillsborough County schools. ...more

June 15, 2009

Please help me get this right. Hillsborough County schools are in a budget crisis. The school system wants to spend $42,000 to engrave school laptops with identifying marks to prevent theft. Is there no one capable within the system who can use an etching tool to mark these laptops? ...more

April 23, 2009

Former Hillsborough County schools Superintendent Earl Lennard will receive the Ellsworth G. Simmons Good Government Award at the April 15 county commission meeting. ...more

April 5, 2009

A teacher inspired Paul Wharton to pursue his dream of becoming an educator. ...more

April 1, 2009

The impact of Wharton's hands-on mentoring style still can be seen in many of today's teachers and administrators. ...more

March 31, 2009

When thousands of locations from the Empire State Building to the Great Pyramids of Giza switch their lights off Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, students from more than 60 Hillsborough County schools will have already done that. ...more

March 27, 2009

The state Board of Education on Tuesday approved rescue plans for three Hillsborough County schools that could shake up the faculty and staff if they fail to improve. ...more

March 18, 2009