The Institute for Governance and Civics (IGC) at Florida State University recently published their findings after surveying 1,234 Florida voters before the 2024 general election about trust in public schools. They found that an “alarming” number of Floridians do not trust K-12 schools, and that their distrust primarily comes from the concerns that schools have […]
By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix As the Florida Democratic Party continues to consider opening its primary elections to independent voters, a survey backed by proponents finds strong support for the idea. Florida Open Primaries, an advocacy group working to open Florida’s closed primary voting system, along with the group Open Primaries and its Let Us Vote campaign, […]
Over the last few years Tallahassee Reports has made an effort to expand our news coverage to include local sports. As the local media landscape continues to evolve and legacy media outlets make cuts, we saw an opportunity to fill a void. We feel that covering sports – with an emphasis on high school – […]
On October 8th, Leon hosted the Tallahassee City Golf Championship at Hilaman Golf Course with nine schools competing. Those schools included Chiles, Maclay, Florida High, Lincoln, Leon, St John Paull II (JPII), Rickards, Community Leadership Academy (CLA), Community Christian (CCS) and Godby. The Chiles golf team went back-to-back, winning the Tallahassee City Championship for the […]
LOCAL NEWS The latest Leon County Sheriff’s Office School Resource 2024-25 Annual Report is out, and it shows a 38.3% increase in high school arrests when compared to 2023-24. The increase was driven by a significant increase in arrests at Leon and Rickards high schools. The chart below shows the arrests for each of the […]
By The News Service of Florida The Republican Party of Florida in September added to its voter-registration edge over the Florida Democratic Party and moved closer to a margin of 1.4 million voters. The GOP had 5,505,326 “active” registered voters as of Sept. 30, while the Democratic Party had 4,117,871, according to newly posted data […]
By Christine Sexton, Florida Phoenix Rep. Sam Garrison, selected Thursday to become the next speaker of the Florida House, is playing down estimates that the state could lose billions of dollars over the next few years for Medicaid. Instead, Garrison touted Florida’s decision to not expand Medicaid access to low-income adults as a wise choice […]
On Saturday at noon on ESPN the Seminoles will host the Pittsburgh Panthers. Pittsburgh is 3-2 this season with wins over Duquesne, Central Michigan and Boston College and losses to West Virginia and Louisville. Florida State is 5-6 all-time versus Pittsburgh. The last time these two played was in 2023. FSU got the victory, 24-7. […]
The latest Leon County Sheriff’s Office School Resource 2024-25 Annual Report is out, and it shows a 38.3% increase in high school arrests when compared to 2023-24. The increase was driven by a significant increase in arrests at Leon and Rickards high schools. The chart below shows the arrests for each of the five major […]
LOCAL NEWS Changes are coming to high schools in Leon County next week. Starting Tuesday, Oct. 14, a new bell schedule will slightly lengthen the school day. All high schools will end at 1:55. Some of them will start a tad earlier at 7:25, and some lunch times may differ. Steve Stewart discusses the recent […]