Are our children ready to learn?
- August 24, 2014
- / Reggie Dogan
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Nearly a third of children entering kindergarten in Escambia County aren’t ready for school. That’s sobering news because the future of Escambia’s economy and workforce very likely depends on those preschoolers and how well they are prepared for school.
Escambia public schools worked for me
- August 24, 2014
- / Admin
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Education means different things to different people. For my parents, it meant leaving a house and a familiar neighborhood on the west side of Pensacola to move to East Hill in search of better schools for me and my brother.
Last year, 1 in 3 Escambia students didn't graduate
- August 24, 2014
- / Reggie Dogan
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On a sunlit June afternoon, Hannah Gainer beamed as she zipped up her scarlet gown. After a senior year filled with perils and pitfalls, Hannah graduated from Pine Forest High School.
Fix education; high-income jobs will follow
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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In Pensacola, our economic prospects are all about education. When asked what our area needs more than anything to develop more high-quality jobs and a vibrant economy, many Pensacola leaders stress improved education, particularly early education...
What if we spent as much on our schools as we do on incentives?
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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Go big or stay home, the saying goes. In that spirit, if public education is, in fact, a problem in Escambia, as so many local leaders seem to believe, then perhaps it’s time to do something about it — and something big at that.
We lag in economic development subsidies
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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State and local officials agree that Alabama has had success in attracting big-name manufacturers in part because, unlike Florida, it can pull from an extra source of revenue — the residential income tax.
Mobile has cast its lot with industry; should we?
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
- / economy,report-pensacola-metro-2014
When officials from the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce visited Pensacola recently, they oohed and ahhed about Pensacola’s thriving downtown business district, as well as the waterfront ballpark and its array of nearby restaurants and nightspots.
Pensacola-area tech sector is on the move
- August 24, 2014
- / Mollye Barrows
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Getting a 350-pound robot to walk like a human is half art, half science. It’s the kind of thing the robotics lab at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition specializes in.
Community-building events help spread success
- August 24, 2014
- / Mollye Barrows
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Robin Reshard wants to hear your story. She calls it being nosy, but it’s a curiosity born from a genuine interest in people and a desire to see them succeed.