(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indiana Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Vanessa Green Sinders comments on reports today from the Indiana Department of Education showing unprecedented growth in third grade literacy rates based on the 2024-2025 Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD) assessment. Statewide, results reveal that 73,500 of Indiana’s third grade students – or 87.3% – demonstrated proficient reading skills on the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCY2Z8toAcY Our President and CEO Vanessa Green Sinders speaks on the Chamber's support of HB 1172, which would create a state Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She also comments on Indiana's elementary school students jumping to sixth in the nation in reading per the new National Assessment of Educational Progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L8bQX5ClOQ The Indiana Chamber’s government affairs team overwhelmingly delivered positive outcomes on key legislation in the 2024 General Assembly. Indiana Chamber President and CEO Vanessa Green Sinders highlights the progress made on behalf of the Hoosier business community and workforce. View our 2024 Final Legislative Analysis, scorecard and other policy documents at www.indianachamber.com/policy.
SB 1 / Chamber Supports Senate Bill 1, a Chamber policy priority aimed at boosting declining reading and literacy rates, passed out of the House Education Committee this week with a 9-4 party line vote. With nearly one in five Indiana students struggling to read by the end of third grade and roughly the same ratio of working-age Hoosiers [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is showing the business community’s alignment with legislative leaders and Governor Holcomb on two key outcomes this legislative session that could have a significant positive impact on the future and current workforce. Jason Bearce, the Indiana Chamber’s vice president of education and workforce development, testified today on Senate bills pivotal in the [...]
HB 1558 / Chamber Supports Authored by Rep. Jake Teshka (R-South Bend), HB 1558 includes several provisions related to the “science of reading,” which includes establishing a $20 million state grant fund to assist school corporations in placing literacy instructional coaches in elementary schools, obtaining science of reading training for teachers and complying with science of reading curriculum requirements. [...]
I hated reading when I was small. I even distinctly remember the reading contest we had at school and my plan was to game the system by reading very short books that were, on second thought, probably board books from my babyhood. Yeah … I didn’t get away with that. My parents forced me to start reading actual books and [...]
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