Category: Education

Escambia High School had 60 percent of its ninth grade fail to test at or above their grade level. Pensacola High had 49 percent below…

The FCAT reading scores were released today for ninth and tenth graders. Only half of the Florida high school students who took the test performed…

My Outtakes “FCAT Reality Check” got picked in an expanded version by Florida Voices and Tampa Tribune’s Hernando Today. Imagine that you are asked to…

The Florida Commissioner of Education, Gerald Robinson, must still be catching heat over the FCAT writing exam results. He issued this statement on Wednesday afternoon:…

By Stephanie Sharp — At the school board meeting last night, seven Escambia county schools were presented with Energy Star awards. The Energy Star program…

Education Commissioner Gerald Robinson held a press conference this afternoon and allowed reporters from around the state to question him about the Florida Board of…

The Florida Board of Education voted today unanimously to lower the passing grade for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test writing exam. Preliminary results showed only…

Republicans in the Senate voted down a bill to block an increase in the interest rates for student loans last week. In explaining his “no”…

More than 7 million students and their families rely on federally subsidized Stafford loans to help pay for college. The loans are distributed by the…

Preliminary data released today shows that only 27 percent of all Florida fourth graders scored a Level 4 or higher on the writing portion of…

Navarre and Gulf Breeze PSC commuters now have a campus closer to home located at 5075 Gulf Breeze Pkwy. “There is a great deal of…

For fans of Science Saturdays, a monthly program run by IHMC during the school year for kids in grades third to fifth, another science based…

On this blog, we have an ad for DonorsChoose.org that leads to a link for donation requests by local teachers for their students. All politics…

We just heard from UWF that the missing resident student has been found. The University Police Department has made contact with the student and he…

From the UWF: UWF Police department is investigating a missing resident student. The student was last heard from when he was leaving campus in his…

It’s a movie that you want to see and don’t want to see at the same time. But as more and more children are bullied…

The “Next Right Thing” extended-day tutoring program is meeting or exceeding their goals to help under-performing elementary school students read at grade level, according to…

Today the Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County will dedicate the third Born Learning Trail at Roger Scott Tennis Center sponsored by Baptist Health Care,…

Joshua Simmons, a second year third grade teacher at B.C. Russell Elementary School, was recently named the 2012 Santa Rosa Rookie of the Year 2012….

College graduates are still looking for jobs that relate to their bachelor’s degree, but theirs is still a way for these young adults to get…