Children can get a free book each week at the Ocala Downtown Market during the Heroes and Helpers summer literacy program and get to see a different miniature horse that matches each week’s featured book.
Winning students had their bicycle icon designs painted on the streets outside of their respective schools.
Police say the crimes involved five students over the course of nearly two years, happening on and off school campus.
Cornerstone School’s Team 1 placed 17th in the American Rocketry Challenge. That has earned them an invitation to participate in NASA’s Student Launch initiative.
Esperance J. Han is one of six Florida students, and 161 nationwide, to be acknowledged as a Presidential Scholar.
The district says the students competed against 2,000 other students from around the world.
Deputies say 33-year-old Dontay Akeem Prophet is the principal at Destiny Leadership Academy. Records show it’s not the first time he’s been booked into the Marion County jail.
Florida State Senator Dennis Baxley was granted an honorary Bachelor of Leadership degree by Lake-Sumter State College.
Marion County hasn’t had a Teacher of the Year in the state finals since 2017.
Chiles Elementary School food service assistant Angela Kelly was selected as one of five School Lunch Heroes statewide for 2024.