Local Folks: Matt Monroe
Meet Matt Monroe of Riverside — father, teacher, musician. Matt is a single dad of two sons: 11-year-old Maverick and 9-year-old Quentin. “I love reading to them,” Matt said. They’ve enjoyed H.G. Wells’s “The Time Machine” and “The Invisible Man”. They have a set of Roald Dahl books that they are making their way through […]
New charter school beginning enrollment, selection process
Construction is advancing at a fast clip on Jacksonville Classical Academy, a new charter K-6 charter school that is situated in historic Mixon Town next to Brooklyn, on the site of the former Forest Park Elementary. The school, which will eventually expand to a K-12, will serve all students of Duval County who sign up […]