Category: Education
Daily Outtakes: Trust meets today
The Escambia Children’s Trust meets at 9 a.m. today in the Escambia County Commission chambers. This will be the first meeting for the new executive…
Coach Yelton: Girls in Sports
We talked with UWF Women’s Basketball Coach Stephanie Yelton about her team’s last two games against nationally ranked Union and Christian Brothers as they prepare…
Daily Outtakes: Teacher Pay Compression
By Tom St. Myer In our Feb. 8 issue, we examine the six-month stalemate between the Santa Rosa School District and the Santa Rosa Professional…
Cassi McGee, Escambia Teacher of the Year
Press Release: The Escambia County Public Schools has announced its 2025 ECPS Teacher of the Year, Cassi McGee. Ms. McGee has been an employee of…
Cox employees buy glasses for kids
Cox Communications employees have awarded a total of $7,000 in grants to local non-profits, through Cox Charities Community Investment Grants. The program provides employee funded…
Military academy appointments
Congressman Matt Gaetz last week announced his 2024 Service Academy Nominations for Florida’s First Congressional District. These are the ones from Escambia and Santa Rosa…
Escambia’s shrinking Class of 2023
When the 2023 high school graduation class started high school in 2019, the ninth grade had 3,215 students. Four years later, the 12th grade had…
Daily Outtakes: Escambia graduation rate falls, while state rises
On Monday, the Florida Department of Education announced that the state’s 2022–23 high school graduation rate climbed to 88%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points…
Santa Rosa names Teacher of the Year
Santa Rosa Superintendent of Schools Dr. Karen Barber, Santa Rosa School Board Members, and members of the Santa Rosa Education Foundation announced Christal Bennett as…
Daily Outtakes: DeSantis overlooks Escambia School District
Today, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that more than $35 million in funding from the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant Program will be allocated to Florida…
UDC needs loan extension
Escambia Children’s Trust provider The Urban Development Center (UDC) failed to make its final payment, $41,925, due to the Town of Century for monies the…
School Board loses in federal court
A federal judge Wednesday cleared the way for a First Amendment challenge to decisions by the Escambia County School Board to remove or restrict access…
Daily Outtakes: Attendance issue bigger than reported
Last Friday, I reported the chronic attendance problem that Escambia County Public Schools have, but I only focused on the percentage of students in the…
Daily Outtakes:Absences plague failing schools
The News Service of Florida reported that Florida lawmakers may address chronic absenteeism among public school students when the 2024 session begins next week. Data…
Daily Outtakes: How Escambia schools compare
The Florida Department of Education has an interactive web page, knowyourdatefl.org, that compares counties on how well they did on assessment tests. The charts show…
Breaking: Cannon chosen Trust executive director
The Escambia Children’s Trust Board voted 6-3 for Children’s Home Society’s Lindsey Cannon to be its new executive director. Lumon May, David Peaden, and David…
UWF faculty, undergrads tackle Alzheimer detection
University of West Florida faculty and undergraduate students recently developed Pulsed Medical LED goggles for the early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. Teamwork: The product was…
Daily Outtakes: A Different School Board
The Escambia County School District has five D schools and four F schools. The two troubled middle schools have solutions. The state ordered the District…
Bellview Middle to become Community Partnership School
Children’s Home Society Regional Director Lindsey Cannon announced on WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning that Bellview Middle has been approved to the…
Daily Outtakes: Business as usual for Trust
The Escambia Children’s Trust sent a message to taxpayers yesterday: “Move along. There’s nothing to worry about.” My message: At some point, ECT will need…
