Category: Education
Daily Outtakes: Important meetings today
Escambia County, City of Pensacola, Opening Doors Northwest Florida have been on the path to revamp the Continuum of Care, which receives federal and state…
More schools gain Purple Star status
Eleven additional Escambia County Public Schools have been recognized by the Florida Department of Education as Purple Star Schools of Distinction during the 2023-2024 school…
Tough decisions for Children’s Trust
It’s time to renew the $5.1 million in grants for out-of-school time (OST) programs provided by 19 providers. Escambia Children’s Trust (ECT) created the Out-of-School…
Teachers Union gets pay raise
From the Escambia County School District: On November 15, Escambia County Public Schools, the Escambia Education Association (EEA), and the Union of Escambia Education Staff…
Daily Outtakes: Trust dumpster fire
We were promised that Escambia Children’s Trust would spend the taxpayers’ money wisely and have systems in place to ensure accountability. If Tuesday night’s meeting…
Foo Foo celebrates
In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Pensacola Foo Foo Festival, the event’s inaugural Committee members and grant recipients from 2014 recently gathered with…
Sociology class change spurs debate
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — State higher-education officials on Thursday moved toward making changes to “general education core courses” at…
Daily Outtakes: Next Homeless Crisis
More homeless are being evicted – this time from county property off of Navy Boulevard in District 2, Commissioner Mike Kohler’s district. Some have shared…
Santa Rosa Moms for Liberty tells School Board to drop American Library Association ties
Santa Rosa County’s Moms for Liberty executive board passed as resolution requesting the Santa Rosa County School Board to sever ties with the American Library…
Podcast: Ascension and UWF tackle nursing shortage
Ascension Sacred Heart and the University of West Florida will begin a strategic initiative that allows 16 upper-level Bachelor of Science in Nursing students to…
Daily Outtakes: IP cuts 100 jobs
The news hit the web yesterday that International Paper’s Pensacola Mill will permanently cease operation of its #4 pulp machine, impacting 100 jobs in Cantonment….
Schools outside Pensacola get esports grants
Students at seven campuses – Bailey, Beulah, Brown-Barge, and Ransom Middle Schools; Escambia, Tate, and West Florida High Schools – will benefit from a $1.5…
District looks at adding 6-8 grades to elementary schools
By Tom St. Myer Escambia County Public Schools is putting measures in place to transition two of its elementary Schools to K-6s for the 2024-25…
PSC Athletics receives $250,000 donation from Pensacola Sports
Pensacola State College’s Athletics Program received a historic boost with a $250,000 donation from Pensacola Sports Association. The donation – announced at the College’s Pirate…
UWF Center for Leadership lands Navy contract
The University of West Florida Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz Center for Leadership, in collaboration with the UWF College of Business MBA Program and Hal…
Daily Outtakes: Chaos, Reimagining, More Nurses
Congressional Chaos Congress passed an emergency funding bill to avoid a federal government shutdown. Our congressman, Matt Gaetz, announced that he is filing a motion…
SEC Soccer Tournament tickets on sale
Several nationally-ranked Southeastern Conference soccer teams will be competing for the SEC Championship title from Sunday, Oct. 29, through Sunday, Nov. 5, at Ashton Brosnaham…
Daily Outtakes: Salzman, McDaniel, Lutimothy shuffle
State Rep. Michelle Salzman has scuttled her bill, HJR 19, to put a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot that would set term limits. On…
Daily Outtakes: Say bye to D.R. Horton, Lutimothy and hello NYC
D.R. Horton has pulled its offer to buy 297 acres of OLF-8 in the Beulah area, according to an email published by NorthEscambia.com. The home…
Escambia book battle continues
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With Escambia County a key battleground in a broader debate about school books, plaintiffs in…
