Education Archive

Edward Mansouri believes students don’t learn enough about weather in Florida and the self-proclaimed weather geek has spent the year generating more interest about weather in schools.

Pensacola State College is listed in the Top 100 Associate Degree Producers in the nation for the seventh straight year, according to Community College Week magazine.

Long before military deployments were the norm for families, during an operation called Desert Shield, Operation Desert Friends was taking Navarre’s deployed families by storm. 

Santa Rosa schools will recognize National School Lunch Week from Oct. 12-16 with the theme, “School Lunch Snapshot” to share the best images of today’s school lunches.  The national week is set to recognize the National School Lunch Program and the 30 million children it serves every day nation-wide.

On Sept.1, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart announced that the independent third-party review of the Florida Standards Assessment which was mandated by the Florida Legislature, had confirmed the FSA is valid for group-level use and an accurate way to measure students’ knowledge of the Florida Standards. Since that announcement, some have relied on only portions of the report, failing to provide context or connection to the entire report and its overall conclusions. This has resulted in some incorrect interpretations of the report.

At the September 10th Santa Rosa School Board meeting, AT&T Regional Director of External Affairs Ray Walker presented Santa Rosa Education Foundation with a $25,000 contribution to support a Career Ops program for 9 -12 grade students in Santa Rosa County public schools.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced the creation of the Young Entrepreneur Award which will recognize students, college graduates and young entrepreneurs who excel in the workplace and create innovative ideas.

Across America millions of students travel to school in the more than 100,000 school buses that transport students daily, says Curtiss Routh of Radio Engineering Industries. As they get on or off the bus, each child is in danger of being hit by a motorist who disobeys the flashing red light of the bus’ stop- arm signal. Last year, nearly 76,000 illegal passes were documented during a one-day survey conducted nationwide – this translates to 13.68 million illegal passes annually.

Pensacola State College’s Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse program is ranked 17th nationally in the Top 25 Schools for Nursing Specialties by Nursing School Hub.

Hands shot up into the air quickly when a group of Navarre football players entered a fourth-grade classroom at Holley Navarre Intermediate School Thursday afternoon.