When House Bill 1 passed the Florida Legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year, the expectation was that come the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, families would have expanded school choice access through an updated school voucher system, which notably includes an education savings account (ESA) for every Florida student.

Keeping students engaged in school can be a challenge. For Bagdad Elementary School, they are doing it by giving them responsibilities.

Every school library and media center in Santa Rosa County District Schools has completely opened to students, with the exception of one: Wallace Lake K-8.

With Santa Rosa County schools back in session, there is more school bus traffic on the road. Around 16,000 students are being transported daily across 174 bus routes across the district.

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.