When the school year begins in August, two East Tampa schools will have been converted to same gender academies. The two schools are Ferrell and Franklin Middle Schools.\u00a0 Neither of the principals is African American.<\/p>\n
The Ferrell Girls Preparatory Academy, located on the site of the old Middleton High School, will cater to girls entering 6th through 8th grades. Ms. Karen French<\/strong> will serve as the new principal for first time same gender school. Hillsborough County School Board Chairperson Doretha Edgecomb<\/strong> said Ms. French<\/strong> is the former principal of Franklin Middle School. She was interviewed for the position and wanted to serve as the principal of the single gender school.<\/p>\n The Franklin Boys Preparatory Academy will cater to boys entering 6th through 8th grades. John Haley<\/strong> will serve as the new principal for first time all-boys school.<\/p>\n ***Look for full story in Tuesday’s Sentinel<\/em>****<\/strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cShe did an outstanding job working with the students at Franklin. Ferrell is going to have a very diverse student body although it is in East Tampa. When I went to the parent orientation meeting, I saw students from several different ethnic backgrounds,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Ferrell currently has the distinction of being one of only 10 schools in Florida, and the only one in Hillsborough County to be recognized as a SMART Showcase School. The SMART technology offers high quality, interactive lesson activities, content, assessment material and teaching resources.<\/p>\n Franklin <\/strong>focuses on new technology and has several computer labs. It also focuses on Math, Language Arts, Reading, and Business Applications.<\/p>\n Haley <\/strong>is the former principal of Madison Middle School, was also screened for the position. \u201cI believe John Haley<\/strong> has great insight about the needs of male students. For one, he is the father of five boys, besides that, he is committed to the success of this school,\u201d Ms. Edgecomb<\/strong> stated.[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the school year begins in August, two East Tampa schools will have been converted to same gender academies. The two schools are Ferrell and Franklin Middle Schools.\u00a0 Neither of the principals is African American. The Ferrell Girls Preparatory Academy, located on the site of the old Middleton High School, will cater to girls entering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}