Category: Education
Saunders near bottom in pay for state university presidents
The News Service of Florida published this article on the pay for state university presidents. University of West Florida president, Dr. Martha Saunders, is near…
UWF pilots Florida’s first hacking defense course
University of West Florida undergraduate students are working as teams to come up with solutions to problems critical to national security as part of an…
Cao-Nugyen receives Joe Oldmixon Service Award
The Center for Independent Living Disability Resource Center today held its 28th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act Awards and Volunteer Recognition Banquet. Dr….
Thomas only tracks when numbers are good
School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas used to track on his webpage the improvement of school grades for the elementary and middle schools in his district –…
Poll: People still favor electing school superintendent
According to an Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 481 likely Escambia County voters, the majority (57.6 percent)Â oppose the idea of the local school board appointing…
Escambia School District has 224 fewer teachers than under Paul
In School Superintendent Jim Paul’s year, the Escambia County School District had 40,924 students and 2,974 total teachers – see Teachers 2008-09. The overall ratio of…
Jim Paul was a better superintendent than Malcolm Thomas
In his last full year in office (2007-08), School Superintendent Jim Paul had 20 ‘A’ schools. Of his 34 elementary schools, 19 were ‘A’ or…
IHMC scientist 2018 recipient of the Young Scientist/Medical Doctor Award
IHMC Research Scientist Dawn Kernagis is the 2018 recipient of the Young Scientist/Medical Doctor Award that is presented annually by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical…
Race to Top did not work, Brownsville, Warrington schools continue to fail
In 2011, the Escambia County School District was awarded an $8.3 million Race to the Top grant. The district was one of 35 in the…
Malcolm Thomas in 2008: ‘Let’s put the pressure at the top’
In May 2009, Navy Point Elementary led the district in gains for fourth-grade writing and third-grade math and reading. It was an ‘A’ school. Superintendent…
How UWF can improve performance ranking
Last week, the Florida Broad of Education released its Performance Metric Scores for the state universities. The University of West Florida finished tied for third,…
B grades come easy for school districts in Florida
The Escambia County School District received a ‘B’ grade for the FY 2017-18 school year. This is amazing considering: 1. The District only earned 54…
High schools show some improvement
The high schools in Escambia County improved the points they earned this past school year. Pine Forest improved its grade from a ‘D’ to a…
Escambia School District gets B grade
Escambia County School District scored 20 points higher that it did last year and earned 54 percent of the total possible points to achieve a…
UWF scores in Top 3 of state universities
The Florida Board of Governors announced today the University of West Florida is among the top-performing public universities for the second consecutive year. UWF earned…
Local teacher named JFR Alfred Lerner fellow
Lauren Samoszenko, a teacher at Ransom Middle School in Cantonment, was recently selected as one of 29 Holocaust educators from 12 states, Croatia and Poland,…
George Stone renamed
During its June meeting, Escambia County School Board approved changing the name to the George Stone Area Vocational–Technical Center to George Stone Technical College. According to a…
PHS freshman wins national academic honor
Max Mateer of Pensacola, Florida won first place in the Senior Individual Performance category at the national finals for the National History Day® Contest. Mateer,…
Santa Rosa touts academic success
From the Santa Rosa County School District: The Santa Rosa County School District would like to congratulate all our students, teachers, school staff, administrators, and…
Pensacola music teacher a GRAMMY quarterfinalist
According to the Recording Academy GRAMMY MUSEUM, Joshua Kaye has been chosen from the 2,800 initial nominees to be a GRAMMY Music Educator Award Quarterfinalist….
