An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded semiautomatic handgun to Gulf Beaches Elementary School on Monday, a Pinellas County School District representative said Tuesday. ...more

December 19, 2007

ST. PETE BEACH - An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded semi-automatic handgun to Gulf Beaches Elementary School on Monday, a school district representative said today. ...more

December 18, 2007

Florida's public school enrollment dropped by nearly 8,000 students compared with last year, another indicator of the state's slumping economy. ...more

December 17, 2007

Crayons, construction paper and Christmas trees abounded as Christ the King Catholic School students from kindergarten through junior high created holiday cards for soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. ...more

December 15, 2007

SEBRING — Singing nursery rhymes in kindergarten is fun. But these days, about 30 students from Hill-Gustat Middle School are harnessing the power of nursery rhymes to improve their reading fluency. ...more

December 6, 2007

A private school claims the mother of a former student crossed the line in a critical Internet blog she wrote about her daughter's experiences there. ...more

November 19, 2007

Getting parents involved in their children's education is often considered the key to a student's success. At least three Highlands County schools are helping parents do that, and we hope many more do. In the last few weeks, one school has held a Better Readers workshop to guide parents on how to help their children's reading at home. The Kindergarten Learning Center had a curriculum night to familiarize parents with what is expected of their children in school while another middle school had something similar. ...more

November 19, 2007

Chiles Elementary students can expect a busy December. ...more

November 15, 2007

Más del 60% de los alumnos de escuelas públicas de la Florida provienen ahora de familias de bajos ingresos, de un 44% en el 2000, según la Southern Education Foundation. ...more

October 30, 2007

SEBRING — The district's newest elementary school is being built on Memorial Drive a short distance north and across the road from a memorial garden, so "Memorial Elementary" would be an obvious name choice. Superintendent Wally Cox has another reason for the "Memorial" moniker for the district's 17th school, which is currently designated as Elementary "A." "I would like to dedicate Memorial Elementary in honor of our veterans," Cox stated in a memo to the school board members. "I believe it would be a great honor to the many veterans who live in Highlands County and to all veterans who have sacrificed much to give us the freedoms that we enjoy each and every day. ...more

October 19, 2007