Category: Education

A.A. Dixon is fighting back–their parents, teachers, the churches and the community aren’t going to go away quietly. Tomorrow night’s School Board meeting could be…

IN reporter Jeremy Morrison interviewed Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas today about the School Board tomorrow on whether to close the A.A. Dixon…

One of the big justifications for closing A.A. Dixon Charter School is that it had nearly $100,000 operating deficit in its first school year, 2010-2011….

My earlier buzz item has spurred a flurry of text messages and emails. The Global Learning Academy has taken in so many students from outside…

The word from the Pace Boulevard Palace (Escambia Co. School Administration office) is Superintendent Malcolm Thomas has made up his mind about closing the A.A….

Pensacola High School IB Student Dylan Dalrymple has been recognized as an Arby’s Hometown Hero.

State Senator Don Gaetz talks about the importance of encouraging all seniors to attend college, two and four years colleges. He measured it by how…

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…

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…

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 meets goal of 12K students on campus a year ahead of schedule. – Press Release: The University of West Florida (UWF) welcomed to campus…

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…

Press Release: UWF President appointed to NCAA Division II Presidents Council – University of West Florida (UWF) President Judith A. Bense has been elected as…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The University of West Florida’s latest student life video:

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…

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…