Tampa Bay Tech football coach C.C. Culpepper's voice cracked as he stared in disbelief at the award he'd just won. ...more

December 11, 2008

Now that they've expanded into nursing education, two for-profit colleges will be sending interns to shadow school nurses in Hillsborough County. ...more

December 9, 2008

TAMPA Now that they've expanded into nursing education, two for-profit colleges will be sending interns to shadow school nurses in Hillsborough County. About 30 to 50 students from Everest University and South University will do their community health work in Hillsborough schools just as students from the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa do, pending school board approval. ...more

December 8, 2008

Trans fats almost shut down a decades-old tradition in Hillsborough County schools. ...more

December 3, 2008

Big changes are afoot for the Florida state football playoffs. Among the effects of an upcoming district realignment is the likely return of Plant City and Durant as district rivals, but that is just the start of the intrigue for those schools, and really for everyone else around the state. ...more

December 3, 2008

A venerable Ybor bakery that supplies Hillsborough schools staved off a New Jersey rival by finding a way to eliminate trans fats from its Cuban bread. ...more

December 2, 2008

Of the 147,000 public high school graduates in Florida last year, at least 6,500 earned a diploma without ever having passed the 10th-grade FCAT. ...more

November 29, 2008

Tampa Electric Co. and Hillsborough County schools will launch a pilot program today designed to promote energy efficiency to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders through the theater. ...more

November 25, 2008

Tampa Electric and Hillsborough County Schools on Tuesday will launch a pilot program designed to promote energy efficiency to third, fourth and fifth graders through the theater. Stageworks, a professional theater group, will perform Pow!r Play at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Lockhart Elementary School in Tampa, 3719 N. 17th St. The play, which runs through May 2009, is part of a three-year pilot project recently approved by the Florida Public Service Commission, Tampa Electric said. ...more

November 24, 2008

Schwarzkopf Elementary kindergartners were impressed when firefighter Gary Guy donned his full uniform and helmet, but the ladders on the retired 1973 firetruck he brought with him drew the most "wows." Guy was one of the guest speakers and surrogate teachers who flooded Hillsborough County schools today, taking part in a homegrown tradition to open new vistas for students. ...more

November 19, 2008