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Elinor Scricca refuses to answer any questions about the transportation audit...even though she apparently had a talk with Superintendent Browder just before the meeting. More>>
The primary is August 27th when voters will go to the polls. More>>
A Lee County high school student makes history as the district's first virtual graduate. More>>
More than two dozen Lee County School bus drivers gathered Tuesday in front of district headquarters ready to deliver a powerful message to the superintendent and board members. More>>
Fox 4 showed viewers a letter signed by the superintendent back in April showing it wouldn't be done until September. The question he's avoided until now. Why didn't he tell the board members and the public? More>>
Browder knew of audit delay months ago More>>
Lee County Transportation Audit Delayed! More>>
Some Cape Coral parents say they're getting traffic tickets for a situation they say police are creating…near their children's pre-school and daycare. More>>
School board candidates jumped the superintendent along with fellow board members…all wanting to know when this audit will get done. Fox 4 went straight to Dr. Browder to get answers. More>>
Tonight, a union rep for the Lee County school bus drivers admits he was surprised at an email showing some drivers making almost $60,000 dollars a year including overtime. More>>
Lee County School bus drivers -- just how much are your tax payer dollars paying them? More>>
The following is an internal email string obtained by public records request from the Lee Co. School District releasing the Top 10 School Bus Driver salaries. More>>
The Lee County School District tonight admitting it needs to take a closer look at how guns are getting on school campus. More>>
Investigators say a 15 year old brought a gun inside LeHigh Senior High School on Wednesday. More>>
New candidate entering the race for the lee county school board, and he promises to shake things up. More>>
Abuse allegations in a special needs class. The shocking way one parent says she found out. More>>
It's the senate bill everybody's talking about....especially teachers. Teachers could soon get paid based on how well their students do on standardized tests. They are protesting here in southwest Florida. More>>
The video that sparked a fight between school board candidates and what you need to know to fix your own internet image. More>>
Kids getting bullied by a bus driver? Why one parent says she was almost arrested when she tried to complain. More>>
Melissa's first choice was Ida Baker High School in Cape Coral...2 miles from their house. But, she got her fourth choice -- Island Coast -- which is almost 20 miles away. More>>
The results are in for Lee County's School Choice program. This year, 94% of Lee County students got one of their top three picks. Did you get what you wanted? More>>
The words jump out from the News-Press article - "Superintendent James Browder wants to stop the debate. School choice is here to stay." More>>
Office Depot admits to overcharging several agencies and the Lee County School District is one of them. It paid back the district about $300,000 dollars back for overcharging on supplies. More>>
Parents worried because their kids' bus is over an hour late. Parents say they never got a call from the principal or Lee County school district. More>>
Lee County School Board members are responding to some tough words from Governor Charlie Crist. More>>
Secret meetings and back door conversations: that's exactly what one Lee County citizen is accusing the school board of doing. He says they're breaking the law. More>>
Lee Sheriff's deputies have arrested a 16-year-old, accusing him of hacking into the system. Deputies say he was able to get into the system when he got a legitimate user name and password. More>>
Office Depot gave the Lee County School District $300,000 back already, but officials say Office Depot probably owes the district even more. More>>
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush now heading an education foundation says Lee County's zigzagging bus problems need to be fixed. More>>
You be the judge. Here are the actual call tapes made by transportation director Charles Dailey and others to their bus drivers about employees boarding their bus. More>>
Your viewer emails make one thing crystal clear: You want answers to these questions over the school bus routes and Charles Dailey. More>>
The Lee County School District is now about to launch a massive audit of the school bus system which could come as early as Monday. More>>
The race is on...for the Lee County School Board. Board chairman Steven Teuber confirming to 4 In Your Corner he is running for re-election. So far Teuber is running un-opposed. Meanwhile...Tom Scott More>>
BOB CHILMONIK: "There is no time card...there's no boss". School board member Bob Chilmonik explains to 4 In Your Corner about the duties of a board member's job. BOB CHILMONIK: "you can put as many hours More>>
Members agree to go forward with a major audit of the entire school bussing system in Lee County. More>>
After months of trying to get him on camera, Lee county school superintendent James Browder finally sat down with 4 In Your Corner to discuss long bus rides. Dr. Browder says those 2 hour bus rides may More>>
Fox 4 goes straight to parents to ask how they're coping with school choice and what they think about the Lee Co. School system. More>>
Southwest Florida parents angry with the lee superintendent. PARENT: "I can't believe the words came out of his mouth!" They say he's not addressing their questions and concerns. DONNIE ARMSTRONG: "No More>>
A dramatic about-face from the lee schools...after Kenny Lisinski, an angry father comes to Fox 4. Taxpayers forced to cough up nearly $3,000 to bus his kids across town, when they have a school he wants More>>
For weeks now, Four In Your Corner has been wanting to know what the head of Lee County Schools has to say to students and parents who are fed up. Now, Dr. Browder has agreed to do an interview with Fox 4. More>>
School board member Bob Chilmonik tells Fox 4 he's embarrased and frustrated, saying it's ridiculous the board can't seem to get the facts right. More>>
The bus problems lead to another big day on a local radio talk show....Fox News Radio. More>>
The issue: these long school bus rides that start at the crack of dawn, zigzag mile after mile, and finally drop small kids off hours later at school. More>>
It's no easy task getting an answer from Lee County Superintendent Dr. James Browder. Dr. Browder has been reluctant to address the issue even when parents have asked him for answers face-to-face at board meetings. More>>
One mother comes to Fox 4, saying her kids ride the bus 4 hours every day -- and they only live 8 miles from the school. More>>
Twice this week, Lee County school transportation director Charles Dailey refuses our requests for an interview. Fox 4 wants to hear what he has to say about allegations he's bullying school bus drivers. Kathleen More>>
Parent Don Armstrong says enough is enough. He's setting up a Facebook group called: "Lee County Florida school bus problem" and posting information about the next school board meeting on Craig's List. More>>
Fox 4 is still waiting to hear from Lee County School Transportation Director Charles Dailey, after one of his driver's publicly criticized him. She accuses him of bullying her and other drivers. More>>
A Lee County school bus driver claims she's working for a school bus bully. She's talking about transportation director Charles Dailey. More>>
In the midst of an investigation - parents continue to speak out against the Sanibel School and its principal. More>>
The school board keeps telling us you don't mind putting your little kids on school busses for 4 hours a day. So at Tuesday's school board meeting, we took all your complaints right to them. More>>
It appears transportation director Charles Dailey lied to you, so why isn't anything being done about it? More>>
During public comment at Lee County School Board meetings, everyone is supposed to get 3 minutes to speak. But that seems to depend on which side of the bus issue you're on. More>>
Why is transportation director Charles Dailey allowed to fudge the truth, and even lie to the public -- at least twice? Fox 4 digs for answers. More>>
After repeated requests, Fox 4 gets the list from the school district of the longest rides. More>>
A teenage girl got the scare of her life, while she was waiting at her Cape Coral bus stop in the dark. She tells her story to Four in Your Corner's Tyisha Fernandes, hoping the guy gets caught. More>>
Cape Coral police are looking for man who may have tried to abduct a young girl as she walked to her bus stop Tuesday morning. More>>
A new story from Lee schools about that bus driver forced from her route, after our Fox 4 school board test. More>>
Union representatives say, the bus driver yanked off her route never said she feared Fox 4 at all -- the district is putting word in her mouth. More>>
A school bus bummer for taxpayers: The money you pay to the school district on your property tax bill is funding one of the most expensive bussing systems in the whole state. More>>
Is a bus driver being punished because Fox 4 tried to get a school board member on her bus for our Fox 4 bus challenge? More>>
Will Charles Dailey get in trouble for saying that all call was about sexual predators? Fox 4 takes our viewers' concerns straight to the Lee Co. School District. More>>
Two hours down but another two to go. Bob Chilmonik is about to see even more problems. More>>
Four in your corner shows you what happens when Lee County school board member Bob Chilmonik tries to test out the bus ride. More>>
Lee County school board members are talking about change…when it comes to long bus rides. You have to listen closely to catch it. But it's there. More>>
Sharp words for Fox 4 at the lee county school board meeting Tuesday night. More than one board member says Fox 4 is one the reasons they won't ride the school bus. More>>
Four school board members are making it very clear they don't really want to ride on the bus. And they've got lots of reasons. At least 16 and counting. More>>
Superintendent Dr. James Browder says the district is now auditing the school bus routes to see if they can make improvements. More>>
Dozens of Sanibel parents showed up to the Lee County School Board meeting Tuesday night for one issue -- the Sanibel School principal. More>>
Fox 4 wants to know why Superintendent James Browder doesn't want school board members to ride a bus picked at random by viewers. More>>
There's another reason why Lee County school board members aren't allowed to get on a random bus. Transportation director Charles Dailey is worried about sexual predators. Last week, he told bus drivers, More>>
Why does the board need a permission slip to see what your kids go through every day…commutes up to 4 hours a day...even in elementary school? More>>
Transportation Director Charles Dailey tells all drivers to stop any school district employees who try to get on the bus without his permission or permission from Superintendent Browder. More>>
When some bus drivers heard their boss -- Charles Dailey, come over the radio with an all call warning on Thursday, they called Four In Your Corner. They're scared to speak publicly, but they all heard More>>
We are down to three invites left to deliver to 3 school board members on riding the 2 hour bus route to school and home. More>>
Fox 4 used a measuring wheel to figure out exactly how far the original bus stop is, and how far the new bus stop is. More>>
New information on the parents who say the Principal of the Sanibel School is forcing their special needs children out…because their FCAT scores are bringing down the school's average. Superintendent James More>>
Almost a week after our "Stuck on a bus" story, the School District finally tells us why this happens. More>>
Lee County School Board Member Bob Chilmonik wants something done. We show him the flood of emails and messages to our newsroom after we tracked a school bus for 2 hours. More>>
An angry dad comes to Four In Your Corner...sick about what's happening to his 12 year old daughter. More>>
More information about the case of the little kindergarteners dropped so far from their parents, alone. After pushing the district over and over again, we were finally told the bus driver made the mistake. More>>
The school bus...ridiculously late...and it isn't the first time. A mother called our newsroom after 7pm Tuesday night in a panic. So, we rushed to Fort Myers to help her try to find her son. More>>
What happened inside the walls of Bonita Springs Elementary School made jaws drop: trashed classrooms, broken computers, and graffiti everywhere. Dwayne Alton - "It's definitely the worst I've ever More>>
Investigators say Edward Jackson, Jr. killed Colbert Luster, and left him for dead in front of the school. More>>
Some parents now deciding whether to have their children tested for tuberculosis. More>>
Fox 4 pushes for answers from The Lee County School District, and we finally got the real deal. More>>
The missing girl in Jacksonville, is a scary reminder of how fast things can turn tragic. Some local parents have been worried about this happening to their child, long before this case. More>>
It's the story that has so many people talking. How some 5 year olds, were dropped off at the wrong bus stop with no parents there. Four In Your Corner finally got some answers from school officials. More>>
Four In Your Corner has been hammering away to get the school district spokesman to address parents' concerns. More>>
As a family member cries with extreme emotion out for a lost loved one...children on the way to their bus stop have a front row seat to murder. More>>
We had to get answers from the district about those little kindergarteners dumped off their school bus, a mile from their parents, all alone. More>>
(Watch all our videos on our Lee County Schools page) 32 new supporters and counting are joining Don Armstrong's fight. They've signed up on his Facebook group page, "Lee County Florida School Bus Problem". More>>
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