Four candidates offered an early look at this year’s Hillsborough County School Board races on Friday, telling an audience at a Tampa Tiger Bay Club forum that they mostly agree on crucial issues affecting public schools. They concurred that African American history must be taught. Teachers must be paid adequately, they said. And culture war issues are detracting from the important work of .
Reports of fighting, tardiness, vaping and other common school infractions have dropped considerably from this time last year, Hillsborough County school district leaders told the school board at a work session Tuesday. Overall, disciplinary referrals dropped from 66,313 to 58,963 when two mid-year reports were compared. The number of times students were caught skipping class dropped by more .