Community schools empower people
- July 29, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
In June the team that will work on building C.A. Weis Elementary into a Community School visited New York City’s P.S. 5 Ellen Lurie Elementary and Salone Urena de Herniquez Middle schools, models for the program.
Special meeting set to finalize changes to landfill rules
- July 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
Escambia County Commissioners will have a special meeting at 9:01 a.m. on Aug. 13 to consider adopting changes to the ordinances governing construction and demolition debris and land clearing debris pits.
On how a bronze is really a gold
- July 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
Rick Harper says regional economic differences do impact PSC's showing on new state performance metrics, which is how a bronze tier college in Florida would be a gold tier college nationally.
Could I-10 industrial park be key to economic growth in Santa Rosa County?
- July 29, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / economy
With Santa Rosa’s primary industrial park nearing capacity, County Commissioner Rob Williamson thinks the county needs to make new space for potential companies.
Where are Pensacola's best parks?
- July 28, 2015
- / Krissy Heinold
- / community-dashboard
West Pensacola’s Legion Field, Sanders Beach top the list of Pensacola's best public paces in UWF student research project on parks and community.
Shannon's Window: PSC's funding metrics and the tale of the tape
- July 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
As Pensacola State College now wrestles with performance funding metrics, getting it right is crucial to our economic future.
Short List for July 28
- July 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
PSC President Ed Meadows' note to staff re: performance funding
- July 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
PSC President Ed Meadows sent this note to staff on Monday, July 27, regarding the college's performance on the State Board of Education's new performance based funding metrics:
Concealed weapons permits fast-tracked for military
- July 28, 2015
- / Jim Turner
- / economy
Florida, which already has the most concealed-weapon licenses in the nation, is now fast-tracking the process for active-duty military members and honorably discharged veterans.
The burden of college debt weighs on grads
- July 27, 2015
- / Carlton Proctor
- / economy
The typical UWF grad graduates with a diploma in one hand and an average of $20,000 in debt in the other. Here is how that financial burden limits their economic choices.