When Hillsborough County schools open in August, students will have to keep their cell phones and other electronic devices out of sight or have them confiscated, school board members decided Tuesday. ...more

July 15, 2008

Sugared soft drinks will disappear from school vending machines in Hillsborough County schools during the 2008-09 school year. ...more

July 11, 2008

When Hillsborough County schools closed last week, more than 190,000 students were unleashed to begin practicing their summer chant: ...more

June 11, 2008

TAMPA - When Hillsborough County schools closed last week, more than 190,000 students were unleashed to begin practicing their summer chant: ...more

June 10, 2008

The final graduation of 2008 for Hillsborough County schools was a celebration of second chances. ...more

June 5, 2008

They set the example to which future classes would live by. On that, most of the graduating seniors at Lennard High School agree. ...more

June 4, 2008

Erin Ireland, 18, doesn't want young people making the same mistake her grandfather did. ...more

June 4, 2008

One by one, 120 times this school year, students were called into the principal's office without warning at Tampa Catholic High School. ...more

June 2, 2008

Highlighted by the Vernon Korhn Award, the School District of Hillsborough County honored dozens of players, coaches and schools at a ceremony Thursday at the district's offices in downtown Tampa. ...more

May 23, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I did a column on gangs in the Hillsborough County schools affecting every middle and high school in the district. Last week was one on the growing use of medicine cabinet drugs by young people in a country addicted to prescription medicines. ...more

February 24, 2008