Day: May 17, 2023

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Although members of the Escambia County Board of Education and county school officials discussed several topics during a May 10 workshop at the Atmore Central Office, the discussions kept coming back to the same thing, the school system’s finances.“I know you guys had questions about finances [at the last meeting], where we were as far as bonds and things of that nature,” said Chief Schools…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer The Escambia County Board of Education, meeting May 10 at the Central Office in Atmore, followed a lengthy workshop with a relatively short special meeting, during which the board approved revision of the school system’s salary schedule to account for summer schoolteachers, and a revision to the system’s Foreign Exchange Program procedures.Superintendent of Education Michele McClung said one of the most important agenda items was…