“You’re kind of flying by the seat of you pants.†by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With the start of the school year just weeks away, local education officials are keeping an eye on…
Category: Education
Teachers: ‘Afraid of dying’
“They’re afraid they’ll possibly die.”- Darzell Warren, president of the Escambia Education Association. By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly In August, students in the Escambia County School District will be returning to school in…
UWF looking into renaming Wentworth museum
From UWF: Yesterday evening, UWF Historic Trust leadership was made aware of T.T. Wentworth Jr.’s role as a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. This documentation was part of a recently acquired…
Parents, teachers question plan to reopen schools
By Ana Ceballos, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As the number of coronavirus cases in Florida continues to climb, local education officials and parents are grappling with a statewide mandate…
The Big Back-to-School Experiment
“We expect you to be serious when you make that choice. You’ll be locked in.†– Superintendent Malcolm Thomas by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The upcoming school year will be unlike any before…
Florida schools ordered to reopen next month
By Ana Ceballos, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on Monday ordered public schools to reopen in August and offer “the full panoply of services†to students…
UWF Songs of Impact winner – video
The original song “Home is where the Heart is†earned more than 1,200 votes in UWF’s Songs of Impact campaign. The winners, UWF senior Delaney Beal and junior Nathan Keaton, were publicly…
UWF requires masks for campus visitors
UWF announces updated visitor guidelines during pandemic  Pensacola, Fla. – June 26, 2020 – The University of West Florida has established new guidelines and protocols for visitors to protect the health…
Breaking news: Tate High to no longer use Confederate flag on programs
A parent notified Inweekly that the school’s principal called and said they would discontinue the ‘five flags’ Confederate logo immediately, using a ‘T’ temporarily.
Tate High named for Confederate veteran
Why would the Tate High principal use a logo with a Confederate flag? Its namesake was a Civil War veteran who would tell his students that the textbooks were wrong about the…
Confederate flag has resurgence in Panhandle
Walmart and NASCAR have banned the Confederate flag. The former Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Escambia County Commission replaced the Confederate flag in the five-flag display with Florida’s state flag in…
Masks to be required when UWF reopens
The Florida Board of Governors approved the University of West Florida’s Fall 2020 Reopening Plan during its meeting on Tuesday, June 23. The plan was approved by UWF’s Board of Trustees on…