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Hillsborough school district considers selling downtown Tampa headquarters A discussion and vote is on the School Board agenda for Tuesday.     Hillsborough County school officials are considering a plan to sell the district's downtown Tampa headquarters at 901 E Kennedy Blvd. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ] Published Feb. 3 TAMPA — The Hillsborough County School District wants to offer its iconic downtown Tampa headquarters for sale, a cost-saving move that not everyone thinks is a good idea. An item on Tuesday’s School Board meeting agenda calls for the district to declare the 1....

Hillsborough’s charter school growth challenged by new board members How hard will they push back against Florida’s school choice agenda?     Waterset Charter School in Apollo Beach serves more than 1,100 students. More than 30,000 Hillsborough County students are learning at charter schools, which use public money but are operated outside the school system. [ Courtesy of Waterset Charter ] TAMPA — They campaigned on a platform to protect the public schools. Now some Hillsborough County School Board members are looking for ways to change the way they deal with charter sch...

Hillsborough County schools could be out of money by end of June, superintendent says Aaron Mesmer reports TAMPA, Fla. - The Hillsborough County school district could be out of general fund money by the end of June, Superintendent Addison Davis told board members during an eye-opening budget workshop Tuesday. Davis revealed the financial trouble facing the school district has been building over several years. "Systemically, when you have challenges and you expend more than you generate, eventually it catches up to you and this is kind of the situation that we're in," Davis told reporters foll...

Lynn Gray, Who Fought for Youths Left Behind, Dies at 78 Mr. Gray started or worked on programs designed to give young people a decent education in a troubled school system. He died of complications of Covid-19. Lynn Gray founded or worked on a number of programs to help young people who had been left behind by the system.Credit...via Gray family Jan. 13, 2021 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . The state of many New York City public schools was troubled in the 1970s. They were too big, students were demoralized, and t...

Support builds for Florida teachers to get vaccinated sooner Gov. Ron DeSantis has turned away requests to move educators to a higher priority.     This photo of a Newsome High classroom in October illustrates how difficult it is to maintain social distance in schools. The image was included in a tweet by superintendent Addison Davis. More than 75 COVID-19 cases have been reported at Newsome this year. [ Hillsborough County School District ] Published Jan. 9 Since the summer, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hammered home his view that schools must remain open if the state’s economy h...