Woodlawn Beach Middle School only started its Microsoft I.T. Career Academy this year but it has already been honored as Santa Rosa County’s Middle School Career Academy of the Year. The award was presented Tuesday at the 2014 Career Academy Awards Luncheon.
Recently citizens expressed concern for students seen exiting a school bus on Highway 98 near the intersection of Hwy. 399. Reportedly students were observed in the median attempting to cross the busy four-lane thoroughfare.
The University of West Florida announced March 17 a $100,000 gift commitment from Pen Air Federal Credit Union in support of UWF College of Business students.
Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has revived a probe into Florida’s Bright Futures scholarship program, which critics charge is increasingly out of reach for the students who need it most.
Kathy Rohrig’s fourth-graders at West Navarre Primary had achieved their reading goals and to celebrate a “mystery reader” was going to visit the class March 7 and read Dr. Seuss’ “Happy Birthday to You” story. Rohrig had arranged for Whitney Psinas, the mother of 7-year-old Addison, to be the “mystery reader,” however, about two weeks before the event plans changed.
There was only an 11-percent absentee rate for in Santa Rosa County public schools March 14, a makeup day for the historic three-day winter storm in late January. However, only about half of district’s students showed up the final makeup day March 17, originally set to be the first day of spring break.
For many years, the focus of schools and many parents was to prepare children for college; however, according to Santa Rosa County Schools Director of Workforce Education Charlin Knight a new emphasis is being placed on preparing students for the world of work. She spoke at the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting March 13.
Fifteen local students participated March 12 in the first Greater Pensacola Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) investor panel showdown. Nine teams took the stage in a “shark-tank-like format” and pitched their ideas to a panel of business leaders. At the end of the competition, the panel selected The Spice Kidz, 12-year-old Eve Knight and 13-year-old Liam Knight from Gulf Breeze Middle School, as the winners. They will now compete in the Yea! Saunders Scholars Regional Competition.
A Senate committee and House subcommittee in Tallahassee last week approved bills, by split votes, that would permit certain school employees or selected volunteers to carry firearms. Senate bill 968 was approved by a 5-2 vote March 10 by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. The House Education K-12 Subcommittee approved a similar bill by a 9 – 4 vote margin March 12.
