The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

October 26, 2009

The light switch in the New Port Richey home of Evelynne Rosario has a special meaning. She stood next to it for 23 minutes while her ex-husband held a knife to her throat. Today, the husband is gone. Rosario has made progress in ferreting out the psychological factors that drew her to him for two decades. She is the author of "Finally Free from Hell," a self-published book that deals with the causes of her abusive relationship. ...more

March 11, 2009

Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith will share a stage today with the person who must decide whether Florida will qualify for as much as $2.2 billion in education-related stimulus funds. ...more

March 10, 2009

The wife of Vice President Joe Biden is in Miami to discuss higher education. ...more

March 6, 2009

Hillel School was one of two schools in Hillsborough County to receive blue-ribbon status this year. ...more

September 17, 2008

Hillel School was one of two schools in Hillsborough County to receive blue-ribbon status this year. ...more

September 17, 2008

Florida high school staff are in line to become detectives, tracking down and verifying every student leaving their school. ...more

June 18, 2008

Should colleges become media policemen? That's exactly what would happen if the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 were passed. ...more

January 7, 2008

Representatives from the U.S. Department of Education will be heading to the Tampa area next month to give a local school one of the highest honors in education. ...more

October 17, 2007