The Florida Department of Education has released the 2019 FSA scores for each school. Listed below are the results of the FSA English test for Leon county’s elementary schools. The source of the data is the FDOE website. The table below shows the FSA English scores for Leon county’s elementary schools for 2018, 2019, the […]
In 2018 five Leon County schools made the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) list of the state’s 300 lowest performing elementary schools. The recently released 2019 FSA score show mixed results for these five schools. Key takeaways: None of the five elementary schools scored above the Leon or Florida state averages for the 2019 FSA […]
On Friday, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) released the 2019 FSA test results. Based on the data, Leon County School district increased proficiency in 5 of 12 categories highlighted by the Florida Department of Education when compared to 2018 scores. In all 12 categories, the LCS district outperformed the state-wide averages. The scores range […]
The Florida legacy media can’t be trusted to publish the truth. Period. And by legacy media I mean outfits like the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Palm Beach Post and Tallahassee Democrat. Here’s why. On Friday Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that included requirements for ex-felons to restore […]
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida Florida’s suspended top financial regulator, in a lawsuit alleging he is the victim of “pay to play — or else” politics, contends state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is running a “powerful but corrupt enterprise.” Office of Financial Regulation Commissioner Ronald Rubin, who remains on administrative leave […]
The latest 2018 crime statistics released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) show that the violent crime rate, the property crime rate, and the overall crime rate in Leon County are all down by over 7% when compared to 2017. However, the FDLE data also shows that Leon County, for the fifth consecutive […]
A two-day conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, by the moderate Democratic group Third Way was focused on trying to determine the best path to victory in 2020. The group is concerned that the left-wing of the Democratic party is overshadowing the more moderate and larger segment of the party. Axios reported that […]
By Ana Ceballos, Jim Turner The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis used his line-item veto power to slash more than $131 million in proposed spending Friday as he signed a record $90.98 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Calling the package “fiscally responsible,” the freshman governor praised […]
Despite a decrease, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement released data for 2018 that shows Leon County leads the state of Florida in crime rate for the fifth year in a row. The crime rate per 100,000 residents in Leon county decreased by 7.2% over 2017 numbers. The table below shows that the violent crime […]
The Leon County Board of County Commissioners, in a 7-0 vote, balanced the County’s tentative budget without raising the millage rate for the eighth year in a row. The proposed Fiscal Year 2020 budget of $274.3 million is a 4.06% percent increase from last year’s budget. However, the increase in property tax revenue – due […]