RESTORE project deadline extended
- September 30, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The deadline to submit projects to be eligible for $58 million in RESTORE Act funding in Escambia County looms. Here's a look at what's in the portal so far.
Small talk makes a big difference in a child's early development
- September 30, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Dr. Dana Suskind shows how parents can put into practice the core strategies of the Thirty Million Words Initiative to bridge the achievement gap between less affluent children and their more affluent peers.
Florida lawmakers get wealthier
- September 29, 2015
- / Jim Turner
- / community-dashboard
Florida lawmakers' financial disclosure forms for 2014 now are all filed with the Florida Ethics Commission. How do Pensacola area lawmakers fare?
Where is Pensacola on the reported sexual assault map?
- September 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
A group of researchers from the University of West Florida mapped reported sexual assaults across the continental United States to see if some areas showed higher incidences of these crimes.
Education commissioner recommends passing FSA cut scores
- September 29, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Santa Rosa churches may help bridge transit gap
- September 28, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / community-dashboard
Brian Nall, the pastor at Ferris Hill Baptist Church leading a network of church trying to offer public transportation to those who need it in Santa Rosa County.
You get the government you elect
- September 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
Data suggests that family income impacts attitude about government policy — and impacts who shows up on Election Day to cast a ballot.
Pensacola Chamber's government meeting roundup
- September 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The Greater Pensacola Chamber is sharing this round up of local government meetings with members. The highlights from meetings from Sept. 14-24.
There is no excuse for the growing achievement gap
- September 28, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
It take more than talking and research to close the widening achievement gaps. Policymakers and educators have to admit that we live in a vastly unequal and unjust society that creates real problems that we see in schools before children ever even arrive on campus.
Progress comes to former PNJ site
- September 28, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / video
Downtown Pensacola will have a new look, thanks in large part to a building boom that includes a $50 million development at the former PNJ site.