Diana O'Neill was acquitted last week of abusing four developmentally disabled students, but there is one question that remains: Will she teach again? ...more

February 18, 2009

Starting at 11:18 a.m., until all 700 students are fed, the bell rings every 30 minutes at Avon Park Middle School. Angelic Sanchez roams the halls in her blue uniform, pistol on her right, eight pouches on the left side of her gunbelt. ...more

February 14, 2009

The children in Diana O'Neill's special education class started their mornings like many other students. ...more

February 11, 2009

The great benefit of this present financial deficit in education is that it provides us with the opportunity to diligently evaluate everything we are presently spending taxpayer money on. Little things add up. Presently, if we added up all the perfectly good fruit that our children are now throwing in the trash, I wonder just how much that would add up to, $200 a day per school. ...more

February 4, 2009

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November 4, 2008

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November 2, 2008

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October 26, 2008

Kingswood Elementary School teacher Robert Nicholson was arrested today, charged with child abuse in an incident involving a student in his music class, Hillsborough County School District spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said. ...more

October 24, 2008

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October 23, 2008

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October 20, 2008