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While Florida school book challenges reached all-time highs over the past year, the Pasco County school district heard some complaints but received no formal objections. Until now. Parent Rebecca Yuengling, who has fought the school district on issues such as pronouns and safe space stickers, has asked for the removal of “The Letter Q,” a book of essays aimed at supporting LGBTQ+ youth as they ...
Every child deserves a quality education — and violence cannot be tolerated on school campuses. Those are two things on which every Floridian should agree. They are also two things that a school district must balance as it deals with student misbehavior. So far, Pasco County appears to have the right approach. The Pasco school board expelled two Zephyrhills High School students Tuesday, in ...
For most Tampa Bay area residents, Hurricane Idalia passed without making much of an impact. So the question seemed obvious to many parents in the region: Would schools really reopen Thursday? Districts indicated as much when they announced closures in advance of the storm? The answer, however, is not so simple. As the noon hour came and went, representatives of the Hillsborough, Pasco and ...
Kim Moore has worked as an educator in Hillsborough and Pasco schools since 2000
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