{"id":250078,"date":"2026-04-28T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:42:39","slug":"floridas-2025-2026-principal-of-the-year-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250078\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s 2025-2026 Principal of the Year announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; Bay District Schools is celebrating on Tuesday! <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/2026\/04\/03\/bay-county-principal-named-finalist-florida-principal-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay County principal named finalist for Florida Principal of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Patronis Elementary School principal Brooke Loyed was named Florida\u2019s 2025\u20132026 Principal of the Year!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">BDS officials posted on social media saying: <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are so proud of Mrs. Loyed and the entire Patronis Elementary family for this well-deserved recognition. Moments like this remind us just how fortunate we are to serve this community together as we continue Putting the \u201cA\u201d Back in Bay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Congratulations to Mrs. Loyed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To stay up to date on all the latest news as it develops, follow WJHG on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NEWS7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wjhgtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WJHG_TV\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Have a news tip or see an error that needs correction? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhg.com\/2026\/04\/28\/floridas-2025-2026-principal-year-announced\/mailto:news@wjhg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news@wjhg.com<\/a>. Please include the article\u2019s headline in your message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Keep up with all the biggest headlines on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-news\/id420768788\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG News app<\/a>, and check out what\u2019s happening outside using the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wjhg-weather\/id1358847597\" target=\"_blank\">WJHG Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WJHG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG\/WECP) &#8211; Bay District Schools is celebrating on Tuesday! RELATED: Bay County principal named finalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,109494],"class_list":{"0":"post-250078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-principal-of-the-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}