FloridaWest EDA is teaming up with the Escambia School District and Pensacola High School to host an open house at their Automation and Production Technology Academy. This career academy is a partnership…
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Escambia County School District owes feds half a million dollars
The Escambia County School District has been found to be out of compliance in how it has handled Pell Grants at George Stone Area Vocational Technical Center, according to a U.S. Department…
Forgotten memorial to teachers and parents
This weekend I came across this forgotten marker in front of the old school district offices on Garden Street. Surrounded by weeds and trash, marker goes unnoticed by the thousands who drive…
ECSD 2015-2016 School Choice Expo, Nov 17. Applications now online
Parents of Escambia County students in kindergarten through tenth grade, and their student (s), are invited to hear about the choices available to local area public school students at the 2015-2016 School…
Shame issue hits stands tomorrow. Get a peek at 4 p.m.
The time has come to take the lipstick off the pig and make our local governments face the numbers that they would rather not talk about–domestic violence, child abuse, death, crime, graduation…
Superintendents tell Florida lawmakers about school security issues
The Florida Senate Education Committee had last week three county school superintendents to discuss school security and suggest ways to make schools safer. Florida spends annually about $64 million on a “Safe…
How safe are your kids at school? We don’t know
We asked the Escambia Public School District what schools have surveillance cameras and what schools have access control. We know that some do, but not all the schools. The school district refused…