At the March 14 meeting of Santa Rosa School District Board, Alan Jowers, a partner in Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC, the certified public accounting firm which conducted the required annual audit for fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, made a presentation regarding its findings.
Pensacola State College, with multiple schools in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, boosts the local economy by $932.8 million annually, according to a new study conducted by Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc. (EMSI).
The State Board of Education on March 19 approved a new bachelor’s degree for Northwest Florida State College – a bachelor of science in early childhood education that will focus on training professionals to work with children ages birth through four years.
Florida parents could breathe a sigh of relief over filling out college scholarship forms for their children if a bill moving through the Florida Legislature should become law.
School Dean Pete Della Ratta handed out samples of a thick, green liquid during lunch at Holley Navarre Middle School last week. The smoothie had spinach, kale, carrots, apples, bananas, strawberries and no sugar.
Excitement was in the air in Beth DePersio’s class March 5 at West Navarre Intermediate School. It was the much anticipated “frog day.’’ The students gathered around a substitute teacher as she explained to the students what they were going to discover.
The three most pressing issues the county’s public schools will face in the coming year are equal budgets, campus safety and fair assessments of staff performance, Santa Rosa County Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick said Feb. 27 during a community update at Tiger Point Golf Club.
Two Holley-Navarre Intermediate School fifth-grade teams will compete at the statewide Odyssey of the Mind competition April 6 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
