May 10, 2019 – It was always clear that attending college would be in the future for Robert E. Lee High School seniors Isaiah Shabazz and Keith Price Jr. “In my household, it was put in my head at a young age I was going to college,” said Price Jr. “It doesn’t matter what college […]
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March 8, 2019 – Students at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Robert E. Lee High School are positively impacting their campuses by taking the lead in addressing mental health and wellness among young people. Douglas Anderson senior, Chloe Cuff, said she was inspired to start the club DA for Change after attending the […]
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Dec. 20, 2018 – Duval County Public Schools has set a new record for the district’s graduation rate. Now at 85.1 percent, schools in 2018 bumped the district’s average by more than 4 percentage points compared to 2017. The results released Wednesday by the Florida Department of Education include other important records in […]
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Oct. 26, 2018 – Duval County Public Schools’ Nongongoma Majova, principal of Stanton College Preparatory School, is one of 11 recipients of the 2018 Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership. In addition to her school being titled a National Blue Ribbon School for 2018, Principal Nongongoma Majova will be receiving the award […]
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Oct. 2, 2018 – For almost half an hour on Monday, Sept. 24, NFL Pro Football Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins had more than 100 Raines High School students spellbound. It wasn’t just his yellow Hall of Fame blazer or the fact this was the first time Dawkins had returned to the school since […]
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Sept. 12, 2018 – Duval County Public Schools is proud to announce that 17 Stanton College Preparatory students are among approximately 16,000 seniors nationwide selected as semifinalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The semifinalists were selected from out of more than 1.6 million students in about 22,000 high schools across the […]
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Sept. 11, 2018 — Congratulations to the 182 outstanding educators who were just announced as their school’s 2019 Teacher of the Year. The announcement was made on Monday by the Jacksonville Public Education Fund (JPEF), which facilitates the Teacher of the Year awards. “This is a huge honor. These teachers are selected by […]
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Sept. 3, 2018 – With their bright red ties freshly tied, 24 First Coast High School students recited an oath and became the first group of students this year to be inducted into the district’s 5000 Role Models Program. The tie-tying ceremony took place on Friday, Aug. 21 at First Coast High School with […]
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Aug. 25, 2018 – Three individuals were shot while leaving the football game between Raines and Lee high schools on Friday, Aug. 24. One individual was killed and two others were wounded. The shooting occurred on a sidewalk between Raines High School and the stadium at about 10 p.m. Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene addressed the […]
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[KGVID width=”640″ height=”360″]https://vimeo.com/285131657[/KGVID] Aug. 15, 2018 – It was a memorable first, first day of school for our Dr. Diana Greene, as she spent the start of the 2018-2019 school year visiting students, teachers and staff as the district’s newest superintendent. The three-school tour kicked off at Mamie Agnes Jones Elementary, the very place […]
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