The City of Pensacola invites the community to a ribbon cutting event on Tuesday, March 28 at 2 p.m. to celebrate the completion of a new musical sensory garden at Kiwanis Park,…
Category: Education
Local GOP rallying support to ban books, superintendent referendum
The leaders of the Escambia County Republican Party have drunk the DeSantis culture war kool-aid and rallying their members to attend next week’s Escambia County School Board meetings. This was sent out…
Education Commissioner names former banned book a book of the month.
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz has launched the Commissioner’s Book of the Month. Among the four books in the inaugural list is one that Duval County last year took off its schools’…
Senate Prez opposes lowering gun-buying age
From the News Service of Florida: Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, said Wednesday she does not support a proposal to lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and…
ECT answers questions
While I was working on the Pensacola Humane Society debacle, the Escambia Children’s Trust executive director emailed her answers to my questions, five hours after she emailed it was impossible to do…
ECT delays report on its analysis on developmental delays
I receive this email before lunch: Hi Rick, I will get the answers to your questions to you tomorrow. We have our Board meeting tonight, and I do not have time to…
Early childhood intervention is needed
I talked with a former Escambia County professional who worked in health care and managed childhood development programs for over a decade. She said early childhood screening for developmental issues is definitely…
Responding to ECT director
Tammy Greer, the executive director of the Escambia Children’s Trust, responded to my and Commissioner Lumon May’s comments about the Help Me Grow program that the ECT staff is asking the board…
Lumon May frustrated about ECT staff pushing hotline
Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May works with kids living in some of the county’s poorest neighbors and is frustrated that the Escambia Children’s Trust staff continues to push for ancillary programs that…
Children’s Trust moves further away from pockets of poverty
The Escambia Children’s Trust staff wants to create a new hotline to connect parents with services – with a price tag of $1.6 million for the first year. It appears to be…
Three districts wanted appointed superintendent
A review of the voting by district on the 2018 referendum for an appointed school superintendent reveals that three districts approved of the change. Two districts- D2 and D3 – have some…
Lewis Bear Jr – ‘A Force of Nature’
On WCOA this morning, Dr. Martha Saunders, president of the University of West Florida, discussed Lewis Bear Jr.’s commitment to the university. “For many years, he served on our foundation board of…