Category: Education
Another abandoned school eyesore
This is the one that you have seen for decades from I-110 Southbound. The building was once a school (J. Lee Pickens School), then the…
ACT Scores: Gulf Breeze tops area
Gulf Breeze High School led the area in ACT scores for the 2010-2011 school year. Pensacola High has the highest scores for the Escambia County…
Brownsville Middle School continues to deteriorate (photos)
While Mayor Hayward and the City are dealing with the old Blount school, Brownsville Middle School on West Avery Street remains abandoned. I visited the…
UWF welcomes 12,021 students
UWF meets goal of 12K students on campus a year ahead of schedule. – Press Release: The University of West Florida (UWF) welcomed to campus…
Why did PNJ place pressure on 3rd graders?
Today’s front-page headline of the Pensacola News Journal states the third graders face “crunch time” because this is the first year that these eight and…
Go, Judy, go
Press Release: UWF President appointed to NCAA Division II Presidents Council – University of West Florida (UWF) President Judith A. Bense has been elected as…
Buzz: GLA students coming from all over district
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas promised the public that only students inside the school’s attendance zone (inner-city of Pensacola) would be allowed to attend the new Global…
Escambia Public Schools have huge disparties
You have to know where to look for it on the Florida Department of Education website. All the Florida Public School District failed to make…
High school grading formula is flawed
Florida Current reports former Education Commissioner John Winn told a higher education panel on last Thursday that a newly-enacted grading formula for high schools masks…
Ho-Hum: UWF study leads to another study
The UWF students, alumni and friends thought their president, Judy Bense, was going to announced a football program by 2013 or 2014. No, what they…
FCAT scores don’t translate to ACT success
ACT scores released on Wednesday showed that Florida’s average went from 19.5 in 2010 to 19.6 in 2011. However, the state still lags behind the…
Buzz: GLA built on stormwater drain
The Global Learning Academy is set on the back part of the old Gulf Power headquarters property. It’s in a valley at the bottom of…
Guttam to head UWF Center on Aging
Press Release: The University of West Florida named Dr. Rodney Guttmann as the director of the UWF Center on Aging, effective Aug. 8. He will…
Minear New UWF VP
Press Release: University of West Florida (UWF) President Judith A. Bense this week announced the appointment of Dorothy ‘Dottie†J. Minear, Ph.D. to senior associate…
Charter Schools don’t always work
Orlando Sentinel reports that charter schools, which account for only a fraction of the state’s public schools, received half of all the F’s when the…
Montclair Elementary honored
The Florida Department of Education recognized Montclair Elementary as one of its high performing schools. It improved from a F to an A. Here is…
Santa Rosa School District slices $21 million from budget
Daily News reports the Santa Rosa County School District is looking at more than $28 million in cuts. The proposed budget puts the district’s overall…
UWF named among 2011 “Great Colleges to Work Forâ€
Press release: The University of West Florida is one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to rankings by The Chronicle…
Warrington Middle still waiting for turnaround
The daily newspaper has put a positive spin on Warrington Middle School, which has been on the state’s list of schools in danger of being…
