Even as they fretted over billions of dollars in budget cuts, state lawmakers voted this spring to spend $27 million to help more poor children attend private schools. ...more

May 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School District needs to trim spending by nearly $16 million to cover an anticipated shortfall in the 2008-09 budget, Superintendent Heather Fiorentino said Wednesday. ...more

May 8, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School District needs to trim spending by about $16 million to cover an anticipated shortfall in the 2008-09 budget, Superintendent Heather Fiorentino said this afternoon. ...more

May 7, 2008

A rotting banana called the Yeast Beast. Saltwater in a freezer. Semiconductors. If you think it's the plotline for the sequel to "Cloverfield," your conclusion is wrong. ...more

February 21, 2008

TAMPA -- Sascha Kline stood in front of her science project and unleashed a big fat yawn. Behind her, the Yeast Beast screamed for attention. ...more

February 20, 2008

Barring changes by the Legislature, the state's class-size amendment is slated to take full effect in August as parental choices change. ...more

February 19, 2008

Only two school districts in Florida require high school students who transfer to schools outside of their home boundaries to sit out a year from athletics unless they can convince a committee they did not move for athletic reasons: ...more

February 7, 2008

"Posh: A Novel," by Lucy Jackson (St. Martin's Press, $13.95) ...more

January 20, 2008

A fierce snowstorm raced across northern New England on Monday after burying parts of Massachusetts, dumping as much as 20 inches of snow in some places and forcing classes to be canceled at hundreds of schools. ...more

January 15, 2008

The ammonia leak in Riverview has forced school officials to close Riverview Elementary School. Parents will be receiving phone calls this morning to alert them to take their children to Spoto High School at 8538 Eagle Palm Drive in Riverview instead. ...more

November 13, 2007