Tag: Escambia County School District
Every Escambia school district has problems
Inweekly reviewed the school grades and total points earned for the non-charter elementary, middle and high schools in the state of Florida. We ranked them…
Campus Security Officers down to nine
Last week, Escambia County School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told WEAR TVÂ that the district had 18 people being trained as campus safety officers. Today, only nine…
District chooses to allocate less to teachers’ salaries
Government officials can always find money for what the items they want to fund. Santa Rosa and Okaloosa school districts have allocated the funds to…
Thomas defends millage cut, ignores capital needs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas defended his rollback of the millage rate to the Pensacola News Journal saying the revenue cut couldn’t have improved teachers’ salaries. Thomas…
Struggling district cuts millage
Parents have contacted Inweekly about the Escambia County School Board’s vote yesterday to cut the millage from 6.325 in 2018-2019, to 6.043 in 2019-2020. In…
Newpoint scandal: District ‘asleep’ while millions stolen
Last year, Marcus May, the founder of Newpoint Education Partners, was convicted of stealing over $5.2 million through a complicated scheme involving Newpoint-managed charter schools…
School district ‘mini communist state’
Escambia County teachers have been sharing their challenges, issues and views on what is happening in their classrooms. The picture that they paint is very…
Escambia 8th graders may have trouble competing for jobs
Around 90 million American workers will require some degree of new training to hold onto their jobs in the near future, according to Andy Van…
Thomas celebrates C’s
The Florida Department of Education issued 2018-19 school and district grades last Thursday. The state focused on “Aâ€â€™s and “Bâ€â€™s as the measure for success….
Recap: Escambia County School District
The Escambia County School District earned a B for the 2018-19 school year. However, the district performed poorly when compared to other large school districts…
Calling all Escambia teachers
Inweekly wants to hear from Escambia County teachers about the conditions in their schools so that the community can better understand the challenges you face….
Race isn’t the problem with public education either
Some in the Escambia County School District administration offices will privately say that problems with Escambia schools are tied to race – too many minority…
Is poverty really an excuse for poor public education
Earlier this week, Escambia County School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas blamed the district’s low assessment scores on Escambia County’s poverty. “Children in poverty don’t have the…
Andrade town hall: Laws, Learning and Sewage
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Three of the region’s elected officials held court in Escambia High School’s library Tuesday evening for the Westside Town Hall. During…
State assessments reveal district still behind
The Florida Department of Education yesterday released the state assessment grades for the school districts. Santa Rosa County sent out a letter touting its successes….