The man recently arrested and accused of murdering two victims, 75-year-old AARP volunteer Victoria Sims and the 19-year-old Black Lives Matter protestor Oluwatoyin Salau, was arrested twice at the end of May and released on bond from Leon County jail just days before it is believed these victims went missing. On June 1, Judge Robert […]
Tallahassee protests were not as “peaceful” as reported in local media, unless rocks or bricks thrown through downtown business’ windows are allowed in “peaceful” protests. Around 5 p.m. Saturday, protestors, reportedly motivated by the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd and over several recent officer involved shootings in Tallahassee, again took to the Tallahassee streets. […]
Lisa Brown stood before the African Development Educators Program in Nairobi earlier this year as their very first woman graduation speaker. As she looked over the crowd of people who came from all over the continent to learn how to solve development issues like housing, hunger, transportation, education and women’s issues, she thought about home. […]
Discrepancies between statements from the mother of a local student murdered in Tallahassee and information provided by Leon County Schools (LCS) raises questions about how LCS accounts for students that seek to withdraw from school and the subsequent impact on graduation statistics. TR reported on March 29, 2019, that Godby High School had the highest […]
The Success Academy’s new leadership team, trained in trauma-informed care and certified in youth mental health, is helping struggling students who have fallen behind at more traditional schools catch up, fill in gaps in their education, and, well, succeed. In June, Jessica Lowe became the new principal the Success Academy At Ghazvini Learning Center, an […]
Bond Elementary School is in a dire situation, like a ship stuck in a storm. For the last two consecutive years it’s received a D grade from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), but its new principal, Delshuana Jackson, is confident she can turn it around and guide it to safer waters. Jackson has a […]
It was the guilty plea that almost wasn’t. Journalists, political hacks and interested citizens packed the Federal Courthouse in Tallahassee Tuesday morning to hear former Tallahassee mayor and City Commissioner Scott Maddox and Paige Carter-Smith, former head of the Downtown Improvement Authority, plead guilty to charges stemming from a two-year FBI investigation into political corruption […]
Pineview Elementary School, one of five Leon County Schools in the Florida Department of Education’s (FDOE) list of the state’s lowest performing elementary schools, is working hard to get off that list. For the 2017-2018 school year, Pineview received an F from the FDOE in overall performance. A new principal and assistant principal took over […]
Leon County School (LCS) board members, during the July 9th LCS Board Meeting, unanimously approved the appointment of David Solz as the new Astoria Park Elementary School principal, despite an ongoing investigation by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) into events that led to his dismissal as Gilchrist Elementary School principal less than a year […]
Is Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) trying to intimidate sexual assault victims? One FAMU alum is asking that question and recently sent her concerns to a list of 40 Florida law makers. She calls for an investigation into FAMU’s attempts to expose a rape victim’s identity in public. Takisha Richardson is a Florida A&M […]