TAMPA, Fla. — A recount is underway as machines work to count the votes in the millage referendum to support Hillsborough County Schools.

“We’re in the process now of we’re going to re-scan 228,800 and some ballots over the next hopefully 18 hours that we’ll be doing this, and then we’ll have our second set of unofficial results,” said Craig Latimer, the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections.

TAMPA, Fla. — The unofficial vote count in Hillsborough County for the one millage rate property tax referendum has failed, but the margin is so close, it will trigger an automatic machine recount.

The Supervisor of Elections Canvassing Board is meeting at 5 p.m

TAMPA, Fla. - Hillsborough County Public Schools is preparing to cut as many as 1,000 jobs. The final decisions about who gets cut have not yet to be made, but it's an issue that's been plaguing the district for months.

TAMPA — At the rate they are going, Hillsborough County School District leaders said Tuesday, the nation’s seventh-largest school system might run out of money by June.

TAMPA — When Hillsborough County School Board members vote Tuesday on a $3.2 billion budget, they will do so with the knowledge that their leadership team is calling for a year of belt-tightening, and maybe two.

Reserve funds have dropped by $32 million since a year ago, superintendent Addison Davis told the board last week in a review session to prepare for Tuesday’s televised meeting.

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing significant budget cuts at the University of South Florida and other schools in the State University System.

Officials at USF say they are consulting with college deans as they decide where to trim, and are in the early stages of the process. But they have already submitted a list of $36.7 million in proposed cuts for this year to the state Board of Governors, which oversees Florida’s 12 state universities. Proposals for further cuts next year of up to 15 percent will be submitted to the USF Board of Trustees on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough County Superintendent Addison Davis wants to cut $7.5 million in district level positions.

Florida’s public schools will remain closed and stay online through the end of the 2019-2020 school year.

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his unilateral decision at a press conference Saturday.