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Catapult Indiana is a 160-hour paid training program that teaches participants about advanced manufacturing and logistics through classroom work and hands-on experience. An initiative of Conexus Indiana, Catapult gives students the skills they need to succeed in this fast-growing field.  To launch Catapult Indiana, the Fairbanks Foundation awarded two grants to Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) Foundation totaling more […]

New updates to the Education section of the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation’s free data dashboard – which we call the Community Data Snapshot – allow users to view and compare data for individual schools and school corporations in Marion County, Indiana, and to view student outcomes by school type.

New data shows gaps in outcomes between Black and Hispanic students and their white peers have widened, due in large part to the pandemic. Our entire community must focus its attention on this worsening crisis and act with urgency to ensure all children, regardless of background, have an equal opportunity to receive a high-quality education.

Modern Apprenticeship is designed to prepare Marion County high school students for the workforce with paid, hands-on experience while also broadening the workforce pipeline by offering employers a way to meet current and future staffing needs.

Through audience engagement and high-quality reporting, WFYI raises community awareness and improves understanding of key public health and education issues and solutions in Central Indiana.

Teacher quality is an important driver of student success. In order to improve student outcomes and increase the diversity of educators in Indianapolis, Marian University redesigned and transformed its college of education into the Fred S. Klipsch Educators College.

Too few of Indianapolis’ Black and Latino students and students from low-income families are prepared to succeed in today’s STEM workforce. To respond to this challenge, Purdue University created a new high school model designed to develop a new generation of skilled STEM talent better able to transition from high school to college and careers.