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Business people can hear about what trends are impacting Northwest Indiana's economy at the upcoming 2021 Business & Economic Outlook.

Metro21 Lunch and Learn: Public Policy Analytics: Code and Context for Data Science in Government Postponed until a later date. Join Metro21 as we hear Dr. Ken Steif discuss his project, "Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government."   How do algorithms in government differ from business? In business, revenue is the only relevant bottom line, but in government algorithms must optimize for several disparate bottom lines like equity, fairness, bureaucracy, politics and more. In his new book, 'Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government', D...

FWCS calls on parents to fight Board again tries to halt plan to expand vouchers ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette Fort Wayne Community Schools leaders spoke with urgency Monday as they again called on parents to fight for public education by contacting legislators. Their worries about proposals to expand Indiana's voucher program and fund education savings accounts were underscored as they listened to David Marcotte of the Indiana Urban Schools Association. The organization represents 35 public school districts, including FWCS. Urban schools typically have high populations of poverty, hig...

Complexity cuts hit FWCS budget Study logs drop in funding for disadvantaged students ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette Fort Wayne Community Schools has for years absorbed the sting of declining state funding for disadvantaged students. Known as complexity funding, it is based on students and families in each district receiving welfare or food stamps or caring for foster children. The theory is students from less-advantaged homes require more resources to educate. At FWCS, these dollars have fallen an average of about 5% annually from $1,707 per student in 2013-14 to $1,068 in 2020-21, Chi...