/tags/skills-gap skills gap en-US Copyright Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:26:21 GMT /2015-07-23/texas-gets-ambitious-wanting-twice-the-workers-with-college-degrees Today, the state set some fairly ambitious goals today: it wants three of every five employed Texans to have college degrees within fifteen years. We’re… Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:26:21 GMT /2015-07-23/texas-gets-ambitious-wanting-twice-the-workers-with-college-degrees Bill Zeeble /education/2015-07-17/the-skills-of-north-texas-workers-need-to-improve-mayors-say The mayors of Dallas, Fort Worth and three other North Texas cities got together on Thursday with a single purpose – to tackle what’s known as the “skills… Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:04:55 GMT /education/2015-07-17/the-skills-of-north-texas-workers-need-to-improve-mayors-say Stella M. Chávez | The Texas Newsroom /education/2014-01-30/microsofts-youthspark-designed-to-bridge-an-education-gap-comes-to-dallas Texas led the nation in job growth for the fourth straight year. But in Dallas, there’s a problem.Nearly half of the recent job openings required a… Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:24:04 GMT /education/2014-01-30/microsofts-youthspark-designed-to-bridge-an-education-gap-comes-to-dallas Bill Zeeble