Pasco high schools will get girls flag football, superintendent says

LAND O’LAKES — The Pasco County girls who asked the school board to add competitive flag football to area high schools notched their first win on Tuesday.

Nodding to the public interest and board members’ support, superintendent Kurt Browning said he would include the sport in his budget proposal for the coming year.

“I’m throwing in the flag, pardon the pun, on girls flag football,” Browning told the board during a discussion about spending priorities.

Board members Colleen Beaudoin had pulled a list of spending authorizations from the consent agenda to suggest that the district should reconsider contracts for Gallup surveys, among other...