Category: Education

Press release: The University of West Florida announced today a $200,000 gift from Roger Hemminghaus to name the Roy and Henrietta (Etts) Hemminghaus Chemistry Lab…

Last Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran unveiled the proposed Florida Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards, which will replace Common…

Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green announced Harrison Peters’ appointment as the superintendent of schools for the Providence school district. Peters is the deputy superintendent,…

School choice advocates rallied outside the Florida Capitol on Tuesday to press lawmakers to increase funding for a scholarship program that helps students with special…

The Escambia County School District had the third largest percentage of students using vouchers for private schools under the Family Empowerment Scholarship program. This is…

When enrollment is broken down for each public school, the Escambia County School District lost students between the falls of 2018 and 2019. The school…

  When the elementary school opened in the fall 2011, Global Learning Academy was hailed as an innovative education facility. Superintendent Malcolm Thomas closed three…

  According to the Florida Department of Education, the Escambia County School District is lagging beyond neighboring Santa County in its growth in enrollment. Escambia…

The new Pleasant Grove elementary school just took another step toward reality and Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is, in the words of Escambia County…