Parents tired of waiting in traffic to drop their children at school need to help school board and county officials find a solution, Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam Parker said last week.
On Aug. 26, Code Ninjas, an international afterschool learning center franchise with a focus on coding, held a grand opening for their Pensacola center. The center has actually been open since March 2023.
With school starting Aug. 10, Santa Rosa Press Gazette sat down with S.S. Dixon Primary School’s new principal, Mary Grace White, to discuss adapting to a new school, challenges facing education and her journey to becoming an educational administrator.
Immanuel Baptist Church in Pace has offered its Backpacks for Hope ministry for years; nobody at the Aug. 5 event was quite sure how many.
“Do you know?” missions leader Dixie Peterson asked security volunteer Paul Peaden.
“A lot,” Peaden said. Peterson went to ask someone else.
The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners at a meeting last week honored five middle and high school winners of the Central Santa Rosa County Republican Club’s 2023 Constitutional Essay Contest.
Soon the sounds of shuffling paper, bells, children walking and the scratching of pens and pencils against paper will fill Santa Rosa District Schools’ newest addition, Wallace Lake K-8.
On Friday, July 28, Santa Rosa District Schools cut the ribbon and opened the doors of Wallace Lake K-8 to the public.
Santa Rosa County District Schools will hold a ribbon cutting for Wallace Lake K-8 Friday, July 28. The newest school in the district will officially open its doors to students in a few weeks.
The community is invited to attend the ribbon cutting, which will take place at 2 p.m.
On June 27, Santa Rosa District Schools played host to a delegation of ten women leaders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) from the Republic of Congo.
Butterflies in Motion, Inc. – formerly known as Panhandle Butterfly House and Nature Center, Inc. – uses a mobile butterfly habitat to deliver free educational programs across northern Florida between late spring and the end of the Monarch butterfly migration in October. In just its second season, it already has earned awards for environmental education from the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and the six-state Deep South Regional Garden Club; it also has received a conservation education award from National Garden Clubs Inc.
Santa Rosa District Schools has announced the creation of a parental education series, which will take place this summer. The school district is encouraging families to join the series to learn more about mental health awareness, suicide prevention, being safe on the internet, and bullying awareness and prevention.
