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School year off to smooth start
MARION OAKS - Shortly before 7 a.m., the lobby of Marion County’s newest elementary school was eerily deserted for the first day of school. Few people walked the hallways of Marion Oaks Elementary, which was scheduled to open in just 45 minutes. But then teachers — many pulling rolling crates — began streaming into the immaculate new school.
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Educational upgrades
Outside Howard Middle School, the campus landscape looks like a war zone. Mounds of dirt and downed trees dot the northwest Ocala campus currently under renovation. A few miles away, administrators at Evergreen Elementary School are orchestrating a different sort of renovation, an academic overhaul
Cap and gown season arrives
A week-long senior trip to North Carolina ended on Monday for 23 Ocala Christian Academy seniors, who will be the first to receive high school diplomas this year. At 7 p.m. tonight at Central Baptist Church, Ocala Christian Academy marks the first of 17 public and private school graduations
Rookie comes up big
Carballo is top new teacher; finalists named for top veteran Saddlewood Elementary kindergarten teacher Cecilia Carballo seemed shocked Thursday morning when she saw the long line of dignitaries file into her classroom. As soon as Carballo noticed the balloons and flowers, she realized she had been
Go Green Teacher’s Guide
This 50 page guide contains 9 different detailed classroom activities. These include in-classroom studies, experiments and observation and parent involvement. It’s a great addition to the student educational tab. Interactive Lesson Plans
Technology storm
Nelyn Lea, 15, a sophomore, works on the school’s wireless network on her laptop as she sits with her classmates in Scot Provost’s AP World History class at Lake Weir High School in Candler, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Remodeling at the school cost $33 million and is completed. (photographer,
Evergreen reborn as a demonstration school
Principal Cassandra Boston has taken on the task of improving Evergreen Elementary Schools poor performance of the past. Shown at the Ocala school on September 1, 2009, she is implementing innovative teaching techniques and constantly monitoring student progress. (Alan Youngblood/Star-Banner) By Joe
Florida’s education funding crisis
A decade ago, voters overwhelming passed an amendment to the Florida Constitution that says legislators must make education a top priority. It was 1998, and more than 70 percent of Florida voters demanded that new wording be added to Article IX, Section 1, entitled Public Education for Children. “It
Boy produces video of Ocala history
The next Clint Eastwood may come from a quiet residence on an oak-lined street in the historic section of town. A video made by Grant Harriss, 11, which covers Ocala’s history, with more than 8,300 viewings, has become a bit of a YouTube sensation since being posted in July. “History of
First day of school year for Marion County
Some parents cried when they dropped their kindergartners off for the first day of school. Some 5-year-olds cried as they clung to mommy’s leg, fearing the unknown. Located just off Lake Weir Avenue, Jeannie Wilkins walked her twin 5-year-old boys, Austin and Dillan, to Carol Chandler’s class at
