The Hillsborough County school district will reopen three schools on Thursday that closed due to the threat of swine flu. ...more

May 5, 2009

Mayor Pam Iorio will mark Earth Day by unveiling a new recycling program today. Working with the Tampa Downtown Partnership, the city will place 20 receptacles for recycling plastic and aluminum throughout downtown and the Channel District. Dozens of green receptacles will be placed along well-traveled pedestrian corridors. ...more

April 22, 2009

The name of Sam Horton, a longtime educator and local civil rights leader who died this month at the age of 79, will adorn the school district's Instructional Services Center on North 40th Street. ...more

April 22, 2009

If not, there's always math, English or science listed among the various high school majors the Hillsborough County School Board will consider at its meeting tonight. ...more

April 21, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist has named Karen Pesce of Tampa and Julie Ryczek of Treasure Island as Points of Light in honor of March's Fitness/Nutrition Awareness Month. ...more

April 11, 2009

The mother of a 7-year-old girl is suing the Hillsborough County School Board, claiming her daughter was taped to a chair and ridiculed by her teacher and classmates. ...more

April 2, 2009

David Khalil started the class period with a hodgepodge of tiles and ended it with a mosaic wall-hanging that spelled out "Love." Third-graders at Sheehy Elementary surrounded the artist as he trimmed tiles and took turns spreading adhesive on the backs and mounting them on a wooden backing. They had to be careful, 9-year-old Jaquez Cantave said, and not put too much or too little adhesive on the tile. "Then you got to find a place," Jaquez said. "If it can't fit, he cuts them." Khalil, a Carrollwood-based mosaic artist, visited Sheehy as a guest teacher today, part of a program to get disabled students involved in the arts. The Sheehy students had learning, behavioral or emotional disabilities; other schools involved students who had physical disabilities. ...more

April 1, 2009

In honor of Fitness/Nutrition Awareness Month, Gov. Charlie Crist recognized Karen Pesce of Tampa as the Points of Light Award recipient for the week of March 20. ...more

April 1, 2009

A perfect 300 score from the Department of Education for a Pre-K program offered by a homeless ministry? ...more

April 1, 2009

Hillsborough County School Board member April Griffin said she feels like Charlie Brown's schoolteacher when she travels to Tallahassee to talk to lawmakers about increasing education funding. ...more

April 1, 2009