Florida budget writers got some good news Wednesday, as general-revenue tax collections topped expectations for September by 15.7 percent, due in part to people continuing to spend down savings amassed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ashley Hall, Holley-Navarre Middle School’s ‘Teacher of the Year’ for 2021 has spent all 23 years of her teaching career at Holley-Navarre Middle School, but her enthusiasm for the job makes it seem like she just started teaching.
Since 1998, Hall has brought creativity and humor to her seventh-grade civics students and has not looked back.
Dr. Karen Barber, Superintendent of Santa Rosa County School District, spoke at the newly rebranded South Santa Rosa Republican Women meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 26.
Whenever I talk to my kids – or anyone else’s kids – about the future, I encourage them to find jobs they enjoy. You can work a job for a paycheck only so long before your soul dies a little.
I know, that sounds dramatic, but it’s true. Or at least it has been for me.
During the Oct. 26 meeting, District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright expressed his idea that staff add the resume of any appointee that comes before the board.
Wright’s reasoning is to provide transparency for Santa Rosa citizens, giving them the opportunity to see the prospective appointee’s qualifications to represent them on a volunteer board.
The Santa Rosa County School District has partnered with Cognia, an international education accreditation association, to create a strategic plan for the district’s next five years. In October, a series of surveys were issued to students, teachers, families and the public to garner feedback.
The final tourism tax report for fiscal 2019-2020 showed the year totaled more than $3.5 million of revenue. That was down less than 10 percent from the previous year and still greater than the previous two years despite Covid-19.