New Upper Keys Center brings educational opportunities for students and community
Roughly 100 community leaders stood on the second floor of the College of the Florida Keys new center in Key Largo on Thursday afternoon. With a glass...
12 NEW TEACHERS WELCOMED TO STANLEY SWITLIK ELEMENTARY
By Anthony Guntert
Stanley Switlik Elementary is welcoming a dozen new faces at the Middle Keys for the 2021-22 school year. They range from newly credentialed locals to...
CONSTITUTION DAY CONTEST UNDERWAY
The Upper Keys League of Women Voters (UKLWV) announces the 2021 Constitution Day Contest for middle and high school students from Marathon north to the county line,...
MEET THE TEACHER: GET TO KNOW 5 NEW UPPER KEYS FACES
For the 2021-22 school year, the Upper Keys has fresh recruits to teach our public school students. We thought you’d like to meet a few of our...
SCHOOL BOARD: SLUMP IN TEST SCORES WAS EXPECTED POST COVID
The state has released its 2020-21 school year standardized test scores, and they are down for all Monroe County grades, according to a presentation from Dave Murphy,...
IN PICTURES: EXCITED UPPER KEYS STUDENTS START NEW YEAR
Nervous excitement permeated the air as parents lined up in cars to say goodbye to their children, dropping them off before Plantation Key School’s gate closed to...
MEET THE NEW KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LARRY SCHMIEGEL
This isn’t Larry Schmiegel’s first rodeo.
The new Key West High School principal may have come most recently from Poinciana Elementary School, but he’s no stranger to the...
QUARANTINED VS ABSENT: HEALTH DEPARTMENT CANNOT SAY HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE QUARANTINED
There are currently 105 students infected with COVID-19 in the first three weeks of school. Students are being exposed, however. There are reports of up to 50...
MASK OPT-OUT GRANTED – SCHOOL BOARD REJECTS HEALTH DEPARTMENT ADVICE
On Aug. 24, after an almost four-hour school board meeting during which citizens passionately spoke both for and against the district’s current mask mandate — and after...
STUDENTS EXPLORE THE DEPTHS & BAY IN NEW FIU PROGRAMS
Inside Monroe County classrooms, students will take their learning beneath the depths as they explore the world’s only underwater research and education laboratory. Through data collected by...
