Updated: 10:48 AM This week's Golden Apple Award winner teaches 4th grade at Freeport Elementary School.

Posted: 8:52 AM A Bay County elementary school is using Title One funding to implement a program called "A Leader In Me." They are creating a culture of leadership that teachers and administrators hope will lead to higher student achievement.

Updated: 2:36 PM Panama City - Sports camps are a favorite summer activity for thousands of kids across Northwest Florida, now drama camps are gaining popularity locally. Two dozen elementary and middle school students are busy putting the finishing touches on their presentation of "The Little Mermaid Jr."

Updated: 10:09 AM Panama City - School doesn't start for another several weeks, but a Panama City Rescue Mission program that helps students in need get ready for the new year is already busy getting families signed up. New this year, "Klothes for Kids" is doing on-site registration at places like Girls Inc. and the Boys and Girls Club. That makes it even easier for families to get the help they need.

Updated: 8:44 AM Panama City - An estimated 30 million young Americans are participating in organized sports. While that's great news in the fight against childhood obesity, it also means more athletic injuries. The US Centers for Disease Control say more than 3.5 million kids under 14 were treated for a sports injury last year. So what can you do to help protect your child from an athletic injury? Turns out, quite a bit. According to the CDC, more than half of all children's athletic injuries are preventable.

Updated: 7:07 PM Florida State University’s Board of Trustees approved a proposal on Friday, allowing its Panama City campus to offer a limited range of general education and lower-level courses focused on upper-level majors, which will allow freshmen admission beginning fall 2013.

Updated: 4:26 PM Panama City - As the demand for nurses keeps rising, more students than ever will graduate from Gulf Coast State College with a practical nursing degree. 31 students will graduate Thursday at Gulf Coast's Gulf/Franklin Campus in Port St. Joe.

Posted: 9:25 PM Florida A & M Universities Board of Trustee’s, by an eight to four vote, said they have no confidence in the School’s President. The vote is a message to the President that he could be fired soon if problems aren’t solved quickly.

Posted: 8:11 PM Bay county parents will have a chance to get answers to their questions about the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT. Bay District School officials are holding two of what they're calling FCAT chats.

Updated: 8:24 AM Panama City - Three local female pilots are making final preparations for what could be one of the greatest adventures of their lives. They are participating in a cross country air race that Amelia Earhart made famous decades ago. But it's not just a sense of accomplishment they're after, the trio is trying to encourage other women, young and old, to pursue the pilot's seat.

Updated: 10:08 AM After 39 years in the classroom, this week's Golden Apple award winner is retiring. Mr. Lathinghouse taught middle school language arts in Okaloosa and Walton Counties. He spent the last 6 years at Freeport Middle School.

Updated: 11:59 AM This week's Golden Apple award winner teaches English to 9th and 10th graders at Rutherford High School, but not for much longer. Joy Simonson is retiring in June after touching the lives of thousands of students over 44 years.

Updated: 4:39 PM Bay County teachers and school administrators were on edge Monday as the FCAT writing preliminary results were released, showing a drastic drop compared to last year.

Updated: 8:16 AM This week's Golden Apple award winner is Joy Sammons, she teaches middle school math at Bay Haven Charter Academy in Lynn Haven. Those who know her say her influence reaches outside the classroom as well.

Updated: 4:18 PM The Bay District School Board placed Arnold High teacher Keith Christie on unpaid administrative leave Tuesday amid serious accusations he verbally abused and mocked his special needs students.

Updated: 10:18 AM Students at a local Panama City school received a special letter this week.

Posted: 8:08 AM DeFuniak Springs- Most every school kid uses social media but many school districts are still struggling with how to use social media sites in the classroom.

Posted: 9:15 AM Panama City Beach - This week's Golden Apple Award winner teaches kindergarten at Patronis Elementary School on Panama City Beach. Cyrethia Vines says she can't imagine doing anything else.

Updated: 8:58 PM Representatives of the University of Florida and Florida State University are lobbying Gov. Rick Scott to give them permission to raise tuition by more than 15 percent a year.

Posted: 8:24 PM Chipley- Forget chalk and dry-erase boards. The Washington County School District is instead using a new piece of technology that it says is less messy and more engaging.

Posted: 10:33 AM Florida now has the highest percentage of 4-year-old children nationwide enrolled in a state prekindergarten program.

Updated: 10:26 AM Georgia's high school graduation rate has fallen to 67 percent based a new federally mandated calculation.

Posted: 8:06 PM PANAMA CITY, FL- Bay District Schools faces millions in state budget cuts, but the possibility of privatizing transportation services is meeting some opposition.

Updated: 8:23 PM Panama City - This week's Golden Apple winner is a math teacher at Mosley High School. Students say Mrs. Biddle makes even the most challenging class worth looking forward to. Helping her students learn to love math is Mrs. Biddle's mission.

Posted: 8:20 AM Panama City - A Mosley High School student is being honored nationally as the 2012 Air Force Child of the Year. Chelsea Rutherford, 17, is a senior who is known for her kind spirit and quick smile. We caught up with Chelsea while she was being honored during Mosley's school announcements this week.