Thursday, January 3, 2013
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, Hillsborough County officials have decided to keep beefed up security in place at local elementary schools.
As elementary school students throughout Lutz prepare to go back to class on Monday, they aren’t alone. Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies will also return in time for that first bell – and they’ll stick around throughout the rest of the school year. “School safety is the utmost priority,” explained Lt. Chad Chronister of the sheriff’s office’s community outreach division. With 91 elementary schools in unincorporated Hillsborough County alone, Chronister said the sheriff’s office will have its work cut out for it, but it’s up to the challenge. “We have a great sheriff,” he said. “He doesn’t care what it costs … just get it done. We’re going to do whatever it takes.” Let Patch save you time. Get local stories like this delivered right …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The program involved measuring shadows.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
This just in from Corbett Prep: Located in the shadow of downtown, the University of Tampa’s historical Plant Park provided the perfect backdrop for third through fifth grade Corbett Prep science students to measure their own shadows at different times of the day. Corbett Prep’s intermediate students spent a recent morning at the university with senior-level College of Education science students who created hands-on, interactive lessons and activities relating to the students’ current areas of study: living systems, geology, and physics: Forces in motion. Third grade teachers Kelly Garrison and Tracey Price appreciated the variety of instruction in the ”kid friendly, small group” environment the UT student-teachers provided both in Plant …
Monday, September 10, 2012
The daylong remembrance will feature a protest rally, press conference, speakers and the viewing of the documentary, “Losing Our Sons."
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Monday, September 10, 2012
A Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony will focus on banning the Council on American-Islamic Relations from Hillsborough County Schools. Brandon resident Terry Kemple, president of the Community Issues Council, a Christian political group, has joined forces with the Education Coalition, the Tampa 912, the Tampa Tea Party and the Pinellas Patriots to host a daylong remembrance and protest rally. Kemple became a vocal opponent of permitting members of CAIR to speak in Hillsborough County classrooms after learning that Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa CAIR chapter, made a presentation to a world history class at Steinbrenner High School last year. Kemple and other opponents assert that CAIR is linked to terrorism and is attempting to …
bruce kiper
10:57 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
I "graduated" the red brick school house in its last year,by the way.... more ›