Okaloosa County is proud of the progress of students in our district as reflected in FCAT scores released by the Department of Education today. Science and math have been our educational focus this year and our high FCAT scores can be attributed to that initiative. The hard work of our students and professional development of [...]
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Official Calls Military Child Care ‘Model for Nation’
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2009 – The Military Child Care Act of 1989 has made the military child care system the one to emulate.
Sesame Street Muppets Rosita, right, and Elmo, accompanied Melvin Ming, Sesame Workshop’s chief operating officer, to the Defense Department’s 2009 Child Development Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. [...]
Bluewater Elementary Cited as “Best of Best” by Florida Senate
For Release 2:30 p.m.
August 27, 2009
The students of Bluewater Elementary School have a reason to be proud today. The school was honored by Senate President Jeff Atwater and Senator Don Gaetz as “The Best of the Best” among the state’s public schools.
Atwater (R-Palm Beach) joined Gaetz at the Niceville school this afternoon to [...]
7th’s new home provides growing room
August 20, 2009 by Henry Cunningham
The addition of people and equipment to Special Forces in recent years are reasons the move of 7th Special Forces Group to Florida will have its advantages.
The group is scheduled to move from Fort Bragg to Eglin Air Force Base near Fort Walton Beach in April 2011. The 2005 Base [...]
7th SFG(A) Soldiers, Families briefed on upcoming move to Florida
RELEASE NUMBER: 090420-09
DATE POSTED: APRIL 20, 2009
USASOC Public Affairs Office
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (USASOC News Service, April 20, 2009) – The 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) hosted a Base Realignment and Closure information briefing at the Crown Coliseum today to update Soldiers and their Families about the unit’s upcoming move to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., scheduled [...]
Team Eglin visits Fort Bragg
By Master Sgt. Andrew Leonhard
Team Eglin Public Affairs
4/22/2009 – FORT BRAGG, N. C. — More than 30 base representatives travelled to Fort Bragg, N.C., April 16-18 to present information about the base and Northwest Florida to 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) members and spouses.
During the two days more than 1,000 people were briefed about [...]
It’s official! You are moving to NW Florida…and we cannot wait!!!
Ok… so they just broke ground on the new Army and F-35 JSF sites last month…I guess that means you have little more time and that’s PERFECT for it is NEVER too EARLY to begin planning!!!
So here is your opportunity to tell us what concerns you most about moving to Northwest Florida. Is it housing? Or the school [...]
Greetings Military Families!
Welcome to our blog! We hope this site becomes one of your favorite tools in finding the answers to questions and concerns you may have about moving to Northwest Florida. Post your questions and we will research answers…if a fellow blogger submits the answer first, we will post it too!
