There were two charter schools that had questions asked of them at Friday’s board workshop: Newpoint Pensacola and A.A. Dixon. Newpoint Pensacola is the new charter high school. It started with 92…
Category: Education
Lawsuit filed over metal shredder
Attorney Bob Kerrigan told the Escambia School Board today at its workshop that his firm is filing a lawsuit against the scrap yard near Oakcrest Elementary School and the closed Brownsville Middle…
Buzz: No more new schools
According to my sources, the Escambia County School District Watchdog Committee was told yesterday that there will be no more new schools for awhile once Suter Elementary and Ward Middle are constructed….
Blount’s Demolition Dollars
Local officials take another step today toward demolishing the old Blount School buildings. During the Escambia County Commission meeting this afternoon, commissioners will be considering allocating $130,000 toward the cost of the…
1:45: BYU vs. Marquette
Both teams lost their conference tournament finals. 3-seed Marquette lost to Louisville in the Big East tournament. BYU lost to Gonzaga in the WCC finals. Obama picked Marquette, but Romney had to…
Student in Central Fla humiliated for missing FCAT
Mother was “flipping mad†when her son had a sign placed around his neck that read: “‘I decided to come to school today, but I didn’t come to school during the FCAT. 
Where has the growth been for elementary schools?
The enrollment of A.K. Suter Elementary School is the same that it was in October 2007 – 381 students (and remember the school picked up 14 of those transfers since Oct.). Where…
FCAT Gets Feisty
Tensions rose last night at the District School Advisory Council meeting. It’s no surprise that the topic was FCAT. While students and teachers struggle through the spring to not only to get…
Audits finds problems with School District and its handling of federal funds
Here is a story that the News Journal probably won’t print. The Federal Audit of the Escambia Public School District had major findings on how the district mishandled, during the 2010-11 school…
Keep Reading
The IN has already reported on ECARE’s tutoring program and its good results (ricksblog.biz/good-report-card-for-ecare). It’s encouraging to see how a weekly 45 minute tutoring session can go a long way. The set-up…
Buzz: Pastor May picks up packet to run for School Superintendent
Rev. Lutimothy May picked up this afternoon a packet from the Supervisor of Elections office to file for the Superintendent of Schools. May ran unsuccessfully for the Escambia County School Board in…
School Board to hear about natural gas buses
Six months after Mayor Ashton Hayward asked School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas to consider natural gas fueled buses, Thomas is finally presented the idea to the school board. There must be an election…