The Escambia School District is hosting a public training session on high school athletic eligibility and recruiting guidelines on Monday.

The session, which will be conducted by Florida High School Athletic Association staff, will be at Booker T. Washington High School, 6000 College Parkway, in the auditorium from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 13.

The session is open  to the public, as well as to parents and students. It comes not he heels of the district’s firing of Escambia High football coach and teacher Willie Spears last month.

Spears was fired following an investigation that revealed that the popular coach committed recruiting violations at the school and was insubordinate when school and district officials asked him not to play players who were recruited improperly.

In the wake of the Spears incident, the district also has created a District Student Athlete Eligibility Review committee.

The committee reviews requests and determines athletic eligibility for transferring student athletes. This increases consistency and removes the burden from individual schools, thereby reducing the amount of responsibility placed on athletic directors for transfer issues.