Press Room

NEWS RELEASES

• 8/23/10 The Results Are In: More Graduates
• 3/8/10 Editorial Indianapolis Business Journal: It takes money to raise graduation rates
• 2/24/10 $200,000 Grant Increases Funding for Graduation Coaches Marion County High Schools
• 2/22/10 Common Goal Recognizes Pacers Foundation for Community Partnership
• 1/08/10 Graduation Rates in Marion County High Schools on an Upward Trend
• 11/19/09 Indianapolis’s Alliance for Excellent Education Study: Economic Benefits of Reducing Dropout Rates
• 4/9/09 Indiana Pacers to Host Common Goal Mentor Night
• 3/12/09 Success Being Measured for Indy Chamber's Common Goal Program
• 12/15/08 Businesses Contribute More Than $1 Million to Common Goal
• 12/15/08 Statements
• 6/03/08 Pacers Foundation Contribute $500,000 to Common Goal
• 5/07/08 Common Goal, Indiana INTERNnet Join Forces 
• 8/13/07 Lilly Endowment Awards $400,000 Grant to Common Goal Project
• 5/16/07 Educators and Business Community Unite for Education
• 11/27/06 Indianapolis Chamber, Marion County Superintendents and Community Partners Commit to Raising Graduation Rates

COMMON GOAL QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER

• 5/15/10 Common Goal Quarterly Newsletter
• 6/30/09 Common Goal Quarterly Newsletter
• 3/17/09 Common Goal Quarterly Newsletter

IN THE NEWS

• Indianapolis Star, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010-“Mentoring Editorial Cartoon by Gary Varvel, Indianapolis Star”
• Indianapolis Star, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010-“It’s Your Turn to Help Now, Indy Star Editorial”
• Indianapolis Star, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010-“Mentors Matter, Indy Star Editorial”
• Indianapolis Star, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010-“Needed: Someone Who Cares, by Roland Dorson”
• 1/19/2010 Indy Star - Making progress towards secure future
• 1/14/2010 Indianapolis Recorder - The Indianapolis 552
• 1/10/2010 Indy Star - Keep pushing to reach peak school performance
• 1/09/2010 Indy Star - Graduation coaches are helping more local students stay in school
• 1/08/2010 WISH - Report shows Marion Co. grad rate increase
• 1/07/2010 WTHR - Marion County Graduation Rates Improving
• 7/28/09 Common Goal gives at-risk students a glimpse of professional world, Indianapolis Star
• 7/23/09 Mentoring IPS Students an Enriching Experience, Urban Times
• 5/10/09 United Effort to Reach Goal, Indianapolis Star
• 2/2/09 Graduation Coaches put Common Goal in Reach, Indianapolis Star
• 2/16/08 Chamber raises $1.7 million to increase grad rates, Indianapolis Star
• 12/15/08 Eight donors help Common Goal hit target, Indianapolis Business Journal
• 12/15/08 Initiative to Raise Graduation Rates Raises Nearly $1 Million, WIBC
• 12/15/08 Businesses contribute more than $1 million to common goal, Fox59
• 12/15/08 Common Goal Effort Hits $1 Million Mark, Inside Indiana Business
• 12/14/08 Pacers know the game of life, Indianapolis Star
• 11/7/08 AT&T Awards $800,000 Grants Across Central Indiana
• 10/1/08 MY VIEW: Quit griping about schools, join initiative to help, Indianapolis Star
• Summer 2008 Education Policy Brief: Improving High School Graduation Rates
• 8/08/08 Church Federation asks for prayers for students, Indianapolis Recorder
• 7/30/08 DCHS Student Gets Summer Work Experience Through Internship Pilot, West Indianapolis Community News
• 7/26/08 Study: Black males falter in IPS, Indianapolis Star
• 7/26/08 Editorial: Dropouts drag down city; let's turn anger into action, Indianapolis Star
• 7/26/08 Editorial: Go back to school to help reach our Common Goal, Indianapolis Star
• 6/26/08 Perspective: Mentoring: An Investment in Kids and the Community, Inside INdiana Business
• 6/16/08 Perspective: Kids as a Common Goal, Inside INdiana Business
• 6/16/08 MY VIEW: Coming together to help students grasp diplomas, Indianapolis Star
• Spring 2008 Education Policy Brief: Calculating High School Graduation Rates
• 6/14/08 Editorial: Go back to school to help reach our Common Goal, Indianapolis Star
• 6/04/08 Anti-dropout program needs you, Indianapolis Star
• 6/03/08 Common Goal initiative gets big boost from Pacers, WISH-TV
• 6/03/08 Program aims to boost city’s graduation rate, WTHR
• 6/03/08 IPS Sets Goal of Being Among Best Urban School Systems, WRTV/ The Indy Channel
• 5/25/08 We can do it: 3 problems require Super Bowl effort, Indianapolis Star
• 5/11/08 IN Depth: Mentoring High School Students to Graduation, Inside INdiana Business
• 4/01/08 IPS making national headlines for the wrong reasons; WISH TV 8
• 3/12/08 Eye on Kids: A local program created to increase graduation
  rates, WISH-TV
• 2/21/08 Indiana initiative bold step in preventing dropouts
  Career Tech Update in affiliation with U.S. News & World Report
• 2/10/08 OUR VIEW: Common Goal: Increase high school graduation rates, Indianapolis Star
• 1/26/08 Ballard: tutoring needed, Indianapolis Business Journal
• 1/23/08 State schools battle high school dropout rates with new approaches, Indianapolis Star
• 1/22/08 IDOE News Release: Indiana high school graduation rates released
• 11/12/07 Editorial: Not-So-Common Goal: saving 2,000 diplomas, Indianapolis Star
• 9/10/07 MY VIEW: Raising graduation rates, lowering poverty rates, Indianapolis Star
• 5/16/07 Goal: More grads, few dropouts, Indianapolis Star

Members of the media requesting additional information or sources regarding the Common Goal initiative may contact:

Eric Bedel
Common Goal Director
Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
(317) 464-2271
ebedel@indylink.com
www.indychamber.com