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Indiana banks to launch statewide apprenticeship program

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Weekly Roundup:
​December 17, 2024

Beyond the classroom. In the community.
Connecting with your promising young talent.

"When you see CYP and you see the students, this seems so obvious. You kind of kick yourself, like, why haven’t we done this sooner? Because it makes so much sense. But you know, we’re starting now, right? So we’ll get there.”

~ Indiana Fifth Third Bank regional president Michael Ash

Indiana banks, inspired by Swiss program, to launch statewide apprenticeship program

(Indiana/Patrick O'Donnell, Indiana Capital Chronicle)

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COMMUNITY BUILDING

→ Birmingham Promise intern brings fresh perspectives to UAB Human Resources (Birmingham, AL/Dwayne Coleman, UAB Reporter)

→ 400 Queens and Brooklyn students learn about offshore wind career paths in hands-on workshop (New York, NY/Ethan Marshall, QNS)

→ Superintendent Woods selects 2024-2025 Student Advisory Council (GA/Georgia Dept of Education) + 2024-2025 Student Advisory Council ​

→ Hawthorne High School Students Participating in Hospital Mini Internships in January (Hawthorne, NJ/Rebecca Greene, TAP into Hawthrone)

→ 1 in 10 employers have no confidence in Ky. high school grads (Lexington, KY/WKYT)

→ Mentor program pairs WISD high school seniors with senior adults (Wylie, TX/Wylie ISD, The Wylie News)

→ How Knox County high schoolers can get involved: Junior Commission (Knoxville, TN/Allie Feinberg, Knoxville News Sentinel)

CELEBRATING COMPANIES WITH HIGH SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

​Textron Aviation​

EXPLORING YOUR COMMUNITY'S SENIOR CLASS

The graduating class of 2025 will be the largest, possibly ever in the nation’s history, to don their caps and gowns this spring—but a long-predicted, steady decline in the number of high school graduates will follow in most states.

Just 3.4M high school students are expected to graduate in 2041 from the 2025 peak of 3.9M, according to a new report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

Sources: Most States Will See a Steady Decline in High School Graduates. Here’s the Data (Brooke Schultz, Education Week) + High school graduates to peak in 2025, with slightly deeper-than-expected declines ahead (Ben Unglesbee, K-12 Dive) + What high school graduating classes might look like in 2041 (Mallika Seshadri, EdSource) + A steady drop projected for high school grads (Matthew Dembicki, American Association of Community Colleges)

How will your community fare in the future with its graduating classes of high school seniors?

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