Independent News‘Education’ Archives
Library Wars
Following a week of back-and-forth over library funding during which city of Pensacola Administrator Bill Reynolds equated recent positions taken by Escambia County as “extortion,” county commissioners unloaded this morning, connecting the library issue with other points of contention like Gulf [...]
Library Letters in ‘Chinatown’
The library system was a topic of discussion last time the Escambia County Commission met, and chances are it will be tomorrow as well. While it’s not on the commission’s Committee of the Whole agenda, enough has transpired over the past week to fuel a conversation. During its Oct. 4 [...]
ECARE, an Empty School and Dixon’s Journey
During its workshop today, the Escambia County School Board discussed reading progress within the district, the future of a closed campus and the progress of a struggling charter. Ashley Bodmer, executive director of Every Child A Reader in Escambia (ECARE), made a presentation to the school [...]
Coalition Addresses Discipline Discrimination
Citizens and organizations concerned about discriminatory disciplinary practices in local schools are being invited to join the Escambia Youth Justice Coalition. The coalition—facilitated by the Southern Poverty Law Center—will hold a meeting this week in Pensacola. In August, the SPLC filed [...]
UWF Lecture Series
The University of West Florida’s Downtown Lecture series will begin this week with a presentation from the school’s president. President Judy Bense—who is also an archeologist—will speak Wednesday evening at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition downtown. Her lecture is entitled [...]
Shhh, Library Talk
Escambia County Commissioner Kevin White hit hard and early this morning, pouncing on what he termed “this garbage going on with the Northwest Florida Library.” He opened this morning’s commission work session expressing concern about the reduced hours recently announced by the library system [...]
Dixon School of the Arts takes arts to another level, thanks to Studers
The charter school at A.A. Dixon has a new name - "Dixon School of the Arts." For most of last year, Superintendent Malcolm Thomas and his school board did everything they could to close the school, even publicly ridiculing school officials and its board president, Rev. Lutimothy May. Then the [...]
Do you believe in Dalton Sherman? I do. (video)
This is truly inspirational--great message for the Escambia Public School District administration:
Pensacola State welcomes first 11 Penacola Pledge Scholars
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Eleven Pensacola State College students and 24 University of West Florida students are beginning their freshman year as part of the inaugural class of Pensacola Pledge Scholars. Established by Quint and Rishy Studer, the Pensacola Pledge Scholars program awards Pensacola [...]
First Pensacola Pledge scholars announced
This fall, the University of West Florida (UWF) and Pensacola State College (PSC) welcomed 35 Pensacola Pledge Scholars, amounting to approximately $60,000 in scholarship awards. Out of these students, 24 freshmen are currently enrolled at UWF. The 2012 UWF Pledge Scholars include: Haley [...]
State of UWF Address
The University of West Florida will host the 2012 State of the University Address tomorrow morning. In a press release, the address is descried as pertaining to “significant campus goals” and “the new Strategic Plan 2012-2017.” The address will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the [...]
Scott ask seven superintendents to cut DOE red tape
Gov. Rick Scott has announced that seven school superintendents will be asked to share ideas that will cut through the red tape and regulation in Florida’s education system and lead to more learning time for students across the state. The committee of seven Florida superintendents is being formed [...]