Category: Education

Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas told the School Board that he had rejected an offer from Friendship Missionary Baptist Church of $500,000 for…

Nearly a year after Superintendent Malcolm Thomas broke off negotiations with Friendship Missionary Baptist Church for the dilapidated Brownsville Middle School that has been closed…

The Orlando Sentinel has an article on the student loan defaults. The Sun Sentinel has a database on percentage of borrowers whose loans became due…

We have received copies of the letters the elementary school principals sent home regarding the adequate yearly progress. There is definitely a formula the principals…

Press Release: At the September 21, 2010, regular meeting of the School Board of Escambia County, Florida, a position statement on proposed Amendment 8 was…

It has long been the position of the IN that our local governments should hire local professionals and consultants first – engineers, architects, attorneys, etc….

It may be grammatically incorrect, but the Superintendent Malcolm Thomas’ administration has the slogan for its new drug awareness campaign: “You, me, be drug free!”…

The namesake of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leonard Skinner, died Monday in his sleep at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville. The basketball…

Here is the letter used in 2009 by Woolfolk Middle School in Yazoo City, Miss. It appears Superintendent Thomas might have misinterpreted the federal law…

The sentence from Principal Patti Thomas: “At our school two subgroups, Black students and students with Disabilities did not make the AYP target.” Read N.B.Cook…

The Missouri Department of Education has sample letters for No Child Left Behind and notifying parents about Adequate Yearly Progress. Districts are clearly instructed that:…

Escambia School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas tells the IN the A.K. Suter Elementary and Cordova Park Elementary parent letters that pinpointed inadequate test scoring for African…

Below is a scan of the letter sent home with students that attend A.K. Suter Elementary. The letter is to explain the school’s FCAT grade….

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas was elected due largely to the teachers, who wanted a change from the Jim Paul regime. Thomas kept most of the Jim…

Press Release: Pensacola will once again recognize William H. “Bill” Marshall for his life-long contribution in the areas of ministry, education, community and civic involvement….

Press Release: UWF NAMES P.J. O’ROURKE AS THE FIRST WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE; O’ROURKE TO SPEAK AT UWF SEPT. 8 PENSACOLA – The University of West Florida has…

The school that is having trouble with the FCAT is Montclair Elementary. It has gone from “A” school three years ago to a “F”. It…

Maybe I spoke too soon. In looking at all the Escambia County FCAT scores, only nine middle and elementary schools improved their total points…two of…

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas has objected to the latest FCAT scores like most of the other superintendents in the state, but after the state audited the…

We were initially told the School District has two offers for the Brownsville Middle School building. Now it looks like there hasn’t been any serious…