Browse past news stories for Fruitville Elementary School in Sarasota, FL.

• Sanitizer or soap? Just ask a 3rd-grader (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 05:02:33 am
  By ANTHONY CORMIER Experiment involving elementary school students gives the edge to the old fashioned method
• Students take the hand-washing challenge - The Observer Group (The Longboat Observer)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 11:13:26 pm
  Germs, bacteria and viruses — they are everywhere. Fruitville Elementary School science teacher Andrew Jaffee led the third grade on a quest Thursday, Oct. 15 to find out whether hand soap or hand sanitizer is more effective at protecting kids from the flu for Global Handwashing Day.
• The first day of school, and already there's a test (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 05:14:49 am
  By TIFFANY LANKES and CHRISTOPHER O'DONNELL Staff writers BUDGET CUTS: Veteran teachers face new duties, but they say they'll weather the changes that enrollment dips may bring
• Parents of autistic children angry with teacher bumping (North Port Sun)
  posted on June 7, 2009 at 05:43:22 am
  SARASOTA -- One after another, parents told Sarasota County School Board members their autistic children weren't progressing because they've had six teachers in three years.