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Kaththea Johnson, former Principal of the Year and Assistant Principal of the Year in the School District of Manatee County, was recently selected to serve as the district’s Executive Director for Sch

School District of Manatee County School District of Manatee County School District of Manatee County MANATEE COUNTY (SNN TV) Apr. 25, 2023 - Four different Suncoast elementary schools will have a new

Manatee County Schools MANATEE COUNTY (SNN TV) Feb. 16, 2023 - Lorie Starkweather, who has served as an assistant principal in the district since 2004, will take over as principal at Sugg Middle Schoo

Coffee is for closers. So is Sunburn, your morning rundown of Florida politics.

Ahead of the upcoming school year, Sarasota and Manatee counties announced a number of changes in school administrations.

Manatee County (SNN TV) - The Manatee County School District has announced the following administrative changes for the 2022-2023 school year, pending approval by the School Board. The new positions b

Sarasota Herald-Tribune There was no green eggs and ham at Daughtrey Elementary School, but who needs eggs when you can have “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” and “Where the Wild Things Are”? The Manatee River Rotary Club recently delivered some of the best adventure, history and just plain fun books to the Manatee County school as part of the Lakewood Ranch Rotary Club’s Books for Kids program that supports a new state-approved reading program for students. Manatee River Rotary has helped Da...

Visible Men Academy in Manatee County moves on from founder’s exit Louis Parker didn’t have much in common with his classmates at Phillips Academy Andover in 1969. The child of an uneducated facilities manager, Parker showed up at the nation’s most elite boarding school having grown up on a diet of government cheese and powdered milk. His dad couldn’t read. His buddy Jeb, meanwhile, lived in the same dormitory and would become Florida’s governor, while Jeb’s father and brother woul...

Shirin Gibson began her career as an educator in Manatee County in 1996, working as a teacher’s aide at Daughtrey Elementary School.  Over the next 24 years, she rose through the ranks to become a teacher, assistant principal, principal and eventually executive director of curriculum and professional learning.  Gibson died earlier this month at the age of 47. The educator who went from a support role to overseeing curriculum for a district of 50,000 students, earning her doctorate in educ...

Manatee County School Board Extends Superintendent Cynthia Saunders’ Contract Detailed employee testimonies accuse Superintendent Cynthia Saunders of inflating graduation rates By ABC7 Staff | December 17, 2020 at 8:13 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 8:16 PM MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - The School Board of Manatee County voted unanimously Thursday evening to extend Cynthia Saunders’ contract through June 30, 2023. Previous to Thursday’s vote, Superintendent Saunders’...