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BOE OKs $378K for math, reading intervention programs
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education followed up a stormy workshop with a calm regular meeting, during which the board quietly approved total expenditures of more than half-a-million dollars, most of it for math and reading improvement programs for Special Education teachers and students with special needs. The biggest purchase was of Read180 and Math180 intervention and academic acceleration programs from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 months ago
School board demands more time to study evaluation documents
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education’s workshop, held last Thursday (August 24) prior to the board’s regular monthly meeting, went smoothly for about an hour. Then it hit a rough patch, and another rough patch, and another.The only item on the workshop agenda was a self-evaluation by Superintendent of Education Michele McClung of her performance during the almost two years she has held the job.“This…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 months ago
Collier wins $900K grant for schools
By RANDY TATANOSpecial to Atmore News When Superintendent Michele McClung hired Michele Collier as her assistant, she had a few good reasons.Now there are nine hundred thousand more.Collier recently received information that the state had significant grant money available, but she had only three weeks to put together a proposal. Racing the clock, she outlined a set of programs and improvements county schools could use and submitted the grant request.…
by Atmore News access_time8 months ago
Council OKs gun violence awareness event
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council, sitting one member short, approved during its Monday, August 28, meeting the use of a city park for an event aimed at cutting down or stopping the gun violence that has erupted throughout the city this year.The Rev. Jamel Frye requested use of the park, specifically its baseball field for a “family and friends” gathering to raise awareness of the issue.“This is…
by Don Fletcher access_time8 months ago
The border crisis hits Alabama
Congressman Jerry Carl Since before I took office, I have been warning people about the dangers that come with millions of illegal immigrants pouring across the border. It’s not just the number of people that are coming across and being lost in the system that concerns me as much as the crime and the drugs some illegal immigrants are bringing with them.When I first started talking about this issue, I…
by Submitted Article access_time8 months ago