Education Archive

Crash can save chickens. Crash can open gates. Crash can carry out a lot of functions. Hopefully, in December, Crash can build a wind turbine.

Since she began teaching in Navarre in 1990, Sandi Eubanks has seen plenty of “firsts.”

In the last five years, tuition at the University of Florida increased by more than 44 percent. Across the state, 30 hours at UF costs an in-state student $6,312.90, while Florida State University costs $6,506 and the University of South Florida costs $6,409.70. That’s a $2,000 increase from five years ago.

Earlier this month Santa Rosa County Commissioners decided to make costly but much-needed improvements to the county’s antiquated emergency communication radio system. That upgrade, estimated to cost $7.2 million, will not only improve communication among first responders but will also aid school officials during crises.

For three night, seventh-grader Ariana Mewell camped out at a sea turtle nest on Navarre Beach ready to help the hatchlings make their way into the ocean.

It’s a different approach. Instead of dividing, one classroom at Holley Navarre Primary is multiplying. As of Oct. 8, a few lucky kindergartners got the opportunity to learn from two teachers in one classroom.

Both of the Navarre primary schools recently wrapped up their Boosterthon Fun Run fundraisers.

“Students have really looked at the change as a privilege and they are really kind of self-monitoring (cell phones),” David Gunter, Santa Rosa County School District (SRCSD) Director of Middle Schools, said.

During the 2014 summer break an Instragram account named TBR.Woodlawn was created anonymously with the intent to ridicule Woodlawn Beach Middle School (WBMS) students.

Parents of Holley Navarre Middle School sixth graders had the chance to walk in their children’s shoes Sept. 24 as they participated in “Bring your parent to school day.”