All eyes on Hillsborough schools
Updated: Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011, 7:40 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 19 Jan 2011, 7:40 PM EST
TAMPA - All eyes are on Hillsborough County as educators from across the state gather for a two-day conference on how to make students more successful.
Superintendents are sitting next to teacher union representatives to tackle education reform.
"Everybody gets that our schools have to do a better job. None of us are going to be satisfied unless 100 percent of the kids are able to fulfill their God-given potential," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Weingarten says education is taking on a new form: collaboration from administrators and teachers—groups that might have been on opposite sides in the past.
"We can't get into our little sand box corners and say 'you do it, no you do it.' This is about joint and mutual
