Marlene Sokol

Hillsborough County Schools on Tuesday joined other districts in adopting a cell phone policy aimed at minimizing distractions and disruptions from digital devices on campus.The detailed policy generally requires phones to be stashed away and placed on silent in the younger school years, and used only during lunch and passing periods in the older grades. Teachers can make exceptions when they wish to use phones during instruction. There are also exceptions for students who use their smart phones…

County commissioners who delayed a referendum to pay for teachers just learned there will be no hearing and a swift ruling.

The Hillsborough County School Board approved Emma Morgan to lead the school on Thursday.

The County Commission had delayed the measure to 2026 and is now ordered to move it to the November ballot.

School advocates implored the board to let the referendum for teacher pay go forward in November. Now it will be up to an appeals court.

It’s on in the battle over whether a property tax referendum for schools will make it onto the November ballot.

Mailers about the nonpartisan race labeled Erika Picard a Republican. Her opponent says that’s against state law.

The ruling clears the way for voters to see a school tax referendum on the Nov. 5 ballot.

In some area schools, as many as half the students are just learning English.

More than half of U.S. children are driven to school by their parents. That’s four times what it was in 1969.