An employee of Santa Rosa County District Schools has resigned from their position after an investigation found that the employee had engaged in “financial improprieties.” In a statement to Santa Rosa Press Gazette, the school district said the resignation came after the employee, later identified as Kelly Short (Allen), was informed of action that would be taken against her employment both immediately and through recommendation of the school board at their next regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 19, 2024.

Bennett Russell Elementary School has nominated third-grade teacher, April Cody, for Teacher of the Year. The success she has seen as a teacher she attributes to the mentors she has had along the way and her hands-on learning approaches.

When Katie Cranford tells Milton High School students that she can remember walking in their shoes, she means it in a more literal sense than most high school teachers do.

Cranford, a 2011 Milton High graduate, has been back at MHS as a teacher for the past eight years.

At Santa Rosa High School, teacher of the year Kim Conolly has found the recipe for success to help students stay on track to graduate, regardless of the challenges they face.

The school gives students ages 16 to 21 a chance to earn a standard high school diploma after they’ve left traditional high school.

Pace High School’s Teacher of the Year never thought he would follow in his mother’s footsteps in her teaching career. Now they both work at the same school.

Growing up, Kurt Chism was unsure of his career path. His mother, Karlyn, was a teacher, but he did not plan to follow in her footsteps.

A team of four undergraduate students from the University of West Florida earned the finalist position, placing fourth, at the second National Association of State Procurement Officials, or NASPO, Supply Chain Case Competition hosted in Raleigh, North Carolina on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5.

Mya Waitman was crowned homecoming queen at halftime of Milton’s football game against Mosley last Monday night.

Alumni Stephen ‘81 and Mona ‘79 Wright, community advocates and co-founders of the nonprofit Coastal Connection, are investing $500,000 in the University of West Florida to create the Wright Family Institute for Global and Population Health housed in the Usha Kundu, MD College of Health.

Santa Rosa Medical Center is partnering with a nonprofit to ensure young adults with disabilities make the transition from school to the workforce.

Milton High School’s 2024 homecoming celebration will be on Sept. 27.