Category: Education
WMS violated Sunshine State Standards for History
According the Sunshine State Standards, middle school students are to be taught American History up to 1880. When the get to high school, the American…
More on Becky bus ride
According to WMS parents, the interviews and reports regarding the infamous Becky bus ride don’t tell the whole story. The Becky Bus Ride happened on…
Comparative analysis of Juvenile Justice stats
There are two other medium-size school districts that have high referrals rates to the Department of Juvenile Justice–St. Lucie and Marion. I wanted to see…
Juvenile Justice stats don’t match District report
The more I dig into crime and violence in Escambia County public schools, the more inconsistencies I find. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice published…
School District to install online crimestopper
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told the daily newspaper that the Escambia County School District will have available next August an online application for anonymously reporting misconduct…
How Santa Rosa schools handle crime and violence?
I interviewed yesterday Bill Emerson, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the Santa Rosa County Public School District, about the School Environmental Safety…
Jeff Bergosh retrospective (Godzilla audio)
Here is the audio of Jeff Bergosh when he admitted in 2007 that he was the “Godzilla” (135 posts on the PNJ website) and he…
Will School Board write an apology letter, too?
The 16-year-old Tate High School student charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old female student in a classroom has pleaded no contest this morning. He…
WMS Saga: Sex and FCAT
The Warrington Middle School saga continues as more parents and teachers come forward. We have reports of oral sex in a classroom while the teacher…
Lifetime drug stats for youth show Escambia better than Santa Rosa
The 2010 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey also shows a table for Percentages of Escambia County youth who reported having used various drugs in their…
Santa Rosa Drug Usage Stats
Escambia County and Santa Rosa counties have similar percentages of middle and high school students abusing depressants, pain relievers, amphetamines and steriods over the past…
Brownsville sale not on agenda, third consecutive month
The sale of Brownsville Middle School failed to make the April agenda for the Escambia County School Board. In January, George Hawthorne and Superintendent Malcolm…
Bergosh is still upset
From Jeff Bergosh: We report crimes, we do not condone or attempt to cover-up crimes. A fringe element of our local so-called media has reported…
More on School Board Workshop, SROs on agenda
Here is the agenda for the special workshop that the Escambia County School Board is holding on the afternoon of Thursday, April 14. There is…
FCAT season starts Monday
Students in grades 3 to 11 will take from Monday April 11 through April 21 the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which includes exams in math,…
School Board workshop on SESIR scheduled
The Escambia County School Board has scheduled a workshop on School Environmental Safety Incident Reporting (SESIR) for April 14. The workshop will be held in…
Escambia schools worst crime reporting in Panhandle
School Board member Jeff Bergosh’s comments got me curious to how Escambia County compares to the rest of the Florida Panhandle counties when it comes…
Santa Rosa aggressive on school crime
Santa Rosa County takes a much more aggressive stance on incidents of crime and violence in its school system. In fact, it reports 92 percent…
Bergosh declares campus crime data too complex
Escambia County School Board member Jeff Bergosh wrote on his blog that data in the Florida’s School Environmental Safety Incident Reporting (SESIR) System is “complex…
School stories attract web readers
The Inweekly.net website has doubled its readership over the past two weeks. Tarnished Turnaround had more readers in its first 24 hours online than any…
