Category: News
Charter schools aren’t necessarily the answer
ProPublica has published an article on charter schools. We tend to think of charter schools as locally run schools like Pensacola Beach Elementary, but the…
Buzz: Is Florida Senate creating a state income tax?
The Florida Senate approved a system that will require state workers to put in 2 percent, 4 percent or 6 percent in the Florida Retirement…
PNJ declares fair food safe
First, the rides and now the food at the Santa Rosa County Fair have been declared safe by the daily newspaper. We can all sleep…
Lessons learned
Today I was asked during a radio interview on WUWF if the suspected sexual assault at Tate High School had triggered our cover story, Tarnished…
A School District that gets it right
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is the public school system (Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade) for Montgomery County, Md., a suburban area just outside Washington, D.C….
Blog predicts PNJ front page
It doesn’t happen often that this blog publishes first the front page articles of the next day’s 20-page daily newspaper. Yesterday we gave you the…
Tarnished Turnaround: Overnight comments
Our investigative report on Warrington Middle School and the under-reporting of crime and violence in the Escambia County Public School District has already gotten over…
Buzz: Jim Paul asked to run
A source close to Jim Paul told me tonight that the former superintendent has been approached to run in 2012. Many of the teachers that…
Tate High is only the tip of the iceberg
Tate High School isn’t the only problem school for the Escambia County Public School District. The first year of Superintendent Malcolm Thomas’ turnaround of Warrington…
Hurricane predictions are in –Five big ones
Colorado State University storm prognosticators Phil Klotzbach and William Gray call for 16 named storms, including nine hurricanes. They predict five of those hurricanes will…
Gangs in Okaloosa, Walton counties
The Okaloosa-Walton Gang Reduction Task Force presented yesterday to the Okaloosa County Commission a detailed description of criminal gangs active in Okaloosa and strategies to…
Moby against reduced sentence for Manley
PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien comes out today against Thelma Manley getting a reduction of her 10-year sentence, ignoring the much shorter sentences that others have…
