Archive for December, 2018

Citrus’s grad rate is at an ALL-TIME HIGH… 84.1%!

This week the Florida Department of Education released the graduation rates for the 2017-2018 school year. We were so excited to learn that Citrus’s rate rose to an all-time high of 84.1 percent. In addition, each of our high schools improved in overall grad rate, grad rate of students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, and at-risk. […]

Wishing the Citrus County School District a Merry Christmas

To our Citrus County School District teachers, administrators, staff, and students, As you finish out your week and begin your vacation, I would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We are so blessed to have such hardworking, dedicated staff caring for our students. I hope you have […]

Keep faith… “Kids First”!

Keep faith… “Kids First”! Yesterday was the opening School Board meeting for the new Board term. As the new chairman, I shared the board’s theme for the coming term.  As School Board Constitutional officers, we are charged with one of the greatest responsibilities— that is to care for our kids’academic education, and we do not […]

Florida Edu Commissioner steps down

Florida Edu Commissioner steps down We will miss you and hope you come to visit us in Citrus County real soon. I am saddened by this news.  Commissioner Stewart was the third (and longest serving) of three Florida Education Commissioners that served while I have been a school board member. (The first two resigned to […]