TOWN 'N COUNTRY After nearly three years of working out the details, Town and Country Elementary finally has a covered court. ...more

May 28, 2009

The first Bay Area Association of Independent Battle of the Books was held May 8. Three schools with eight teams met to show the knowledge they gained after reading 15 Florida Sunshine State books and three independent books selected from the Hillsborough County School District. ...more

May 27, 2009

The Rebirth Academy charter school could lose its contract with the Hillsborough County school district if it doesn't improve its test scores, district officials say. ...more

May 27, 2009

The Hillsborough County School District is among 10 finalists for a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ...more

May 19, 2009

Ross Anderson serves as a surrogate parent to at least 60 boys. On Friday, some of those boys were present as he received the We Deliver award. ...more

May 16, 2009

Following a medical examination by nurses from the school district, all 15 Freedom High track and field athletes have been cleared to compete in Friday's Class 3A state track championships, Freedom athletic director Eli Thomas said. ...more

May 7, 2009

Following a medical examination by nurses from the school district, all 15 Freedom High School track and field athletes have been cleared to compete in Friday's Class 3A state track championships, Freedom athletic director Eli Thomas said today. ...more

May 6, 2009

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

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