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Suncoast Foundation Provides $7,500 To Pepin Academies

As students return to the classroom for the first day of school today, Pepin Academies is celebrating a?$7,500 gift from the Suncoast Credit Union Foundation?that will help ensure students with learning disabilities have access to the specialized therapeutic services they need to…

Small Florida school districts band together to reduce health costs

Some small Florida school districts are grouping up to reduce health insurance premiums.

Pasco schools to cut back student screen time

For college students, a school’s state politics can matter as much as its academics

For generations, students chose colleges based on factors like their academic reputation, tuition costs or social scene. But in today’s divided nation, politics has emerged as a rising influence on where young people pursue higher learning.

Seminole High students return to a campus mid-transformation

Florida could ban undocumented students from career education programs

Florida is looking to block undocumented students from attending the state’s postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) programs. The Florida Department of Education is developing rules to adopt enrollment requirements that would make CTE programs only available to…

Ensuring A Strong Start To The 2026-27 School Year

As we prepare to welcome students back to school on Monday, August 10, we encourage every family to remember one important message: attendance matters from the very first day. The start of a new school year brings excitement, opportunity and a fresh beginning. It is also a…

District seeks $490.5M school budget

Community meeting held for Clearwater school property

The original North Ward Elementary School building was constructed in 1915.

Frontier Classrooms To Lasting Legacies

By Preserving Brandon — Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future Before Eastern Hillsborough County became a landscape of busy roads, subdivisions and crowded school campuses, its first classrooms rose from pine flatwoods and sandy trails. Some were plain, one-room wooden…

Registration for city of Dunedin’s before and after school programs opens

USF St. Pete student creates ChemPass study platform

“I’ve witnessed brilliant, hardworking students drown in a system that refused to give them the right tools.”