A Massive Win, For Indiana Public Schools -- In The Face Of Malign Actors Like Mrs. Linda McMahon, And Tangerine 2.0... STEM Upped!

This is excellent, even if it suggests that the federal Department of Education [under Tangerine 2.0, and Mrs. Linda McMahon] is not just failing in its mission -- but is actively hurting America's future competitiveness. . . by gutting public school educational content, in the hard sciences (in favor of. . . theocracy, and right wing / ahistorical gibberish).

I want to stay on the positive -- for Indiana's public school kids -- they are now far more likely to enter the workforce with skills that pharma-, and tech- and yes, even AI- businesses will be willing to pay handsomely for. That is my abiding hope -- and I hope others in industry, in California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and Colorado will likewise answer this challenging call:

. . .The Indiana Department of Education recently announced a public-private investment with Lilly Endowment Inc. to help strengthen the state’s educational opportunities as well as pathways for Indiana students.

According to a news release from the Indiana Department of Education, the $75 million investment, including $40 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc. and $35 million in state funding, is “one of the most significant public-private education commitments in state history.” The investment is aimed at helping:

➣ Accelerate literacy

➣ Expand high-quality summer learning

➣ Strengthen STEM pathways

➣ Modernize and expand career advising

➣ Sustain critical digital learning tools for Hoosier students. . . .

➣ Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Landscape Analysis

These specific funds will help support the implementation of a statewide STEM Landscape Analysis. This is aimed at assessing current assets and gaps in STEM education in Indiana, identify best practices for STEM education and developing recommendations on how STEM education can improve. . . .

Summer Learning Labs Expansion

This portion of the investment will help strengthen and scale the Summer Learning Labs network, including regional coordination, professional development and data collection systems. . . .

While it is rather sad. . . that Corporate America will now have to be spend foundation money, just to bring Indiana public school kids up to basic national literacy standards, I am enthused that Lilly knows Trump's picked WWF-wife / "mis-education secretary" is herself clearly-STEM illiterate -- and therefor private industry nationwide will have to answer the call -- to create / educate its own workforces, ready to earn -- in the future. [Second graphic is from Trump 1.0's backwards efforts, to push theocracy in Indy back in 2018.]

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