Education Archive

The prospect of a new high school coming to the Midway area recently took a major leap forward.

At the July 21 school board meeting, DAG Architects unveiled phase one of their plans for the proposed high school, which will be built on the site where the Flea Market used to be on Highway 98. It will be three stories.

Attorneys for the universities submitted a notice Tuesday that is a first step toward filing a brief supporting Jacquelyn Faircloth, who was 18 when she was hit by the truck in 2014 while crossing a Tallahassee street. Faircloth had been drinking, as had the 20-year-old driver of the truck, who had been at Potbelly’s, a bar near the Florida State campus.

With school beginning on Aug. 10, school administrators, teachers, staff, students and parents are all getting ready for a brand new year.

With a new school year in sight, Navarre High School principal Kacie Windfelder shared what is ahead.

Navarre High School Principal Kasie Windfelder was named the Santa Rosa County District Schools’ High School Principal of the Year for 2022-2023 at a meeting of school administrators on July 26.

Navarre High School responded to the recognition on their Facebook page, “this honor is well-deserved, and we are endlessly thankful for how she tirelessly serves our school community every day.”

With the conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year, Santa Rosa County District Schools are busy planning for next year.

Part of those arrangements is the installation of people in new positions from principals over individual schools to administrators over the whole district.

Every Summer, just before children return to the classrooms, United Way of West Florida and other community partners come together to help get students the tools they need to make the school year successful.

On July 21, they will do that again with “Stuff the Bus.”

West Navarre Intermediate ESE/inclusion third-grade teacher Angela Jordan hoped and prayed country music singer Woody Bradshaw would get an opportunity to visit her students at some point.

They had written letters to Bradshaw a year ago, and the Northwest Florida native responded with a six-page letter to the students, written in cursive, and said he hoped he’d have a chance to visit this year.