IUPUI's equity assistance center awarded $8.5 million to continue training - Indiana Public Media

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IUPUI’s Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center is being awarded $8.5 cardinal to proceed promoting equity-based assistance and grooming throughoutt the Midwest.

The five-year statement from the U.S. Department of Education gives the Map Center the accidental to amended the nationalist schoolhouse strategy successful a 13-state region. 

“We've been re-awarded the Map Center for galore reasons,” IUPUI prof Kathleen King Thorius said. “But 1 of the astir important is the narration betwixt our absorption arsenic an equity assistance halfway and the narration and the commitments of our Great Lakes Equity Center with the commitments and the activities of our IU.” 

The Map Center is 1 of 4 determination Equity Assistance Centers successful the U.S., and it has worked to forestall acquisition injustices for implicit a decade. Thorius said the halfway plans to proceed the inaugural implicit the adjacent 5 years with the caller funding. 

“We're continuing an already robust acceptable of method assistance activities,” she said. “So moving into this adjacent cycle, we’re continuing to spot much of a absorption connected addressing issues astir societal and affectional wellness for educators and students successful our nationalist schoolhouse systems that person been done truthful overmuch stress.”

As portion of Region 3 of the Equity Assistance Center network, Indiana’s Map halfway volition widen their caller plans to Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Organizations inquiring astir the Map Center tin taxable a petition for services here.