Fort Wayne Preps For Educator-Employer Forum
Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry announced the grant recipients Thursday.
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowFort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry will detail plans Thursday afternoon for the city’s first Educator-Employer Forum. The city says the event will connect job seekers with local educators and employers.
Henry first discussed the initiative during his 2015 State of the City Address. It’s set for Thursday, September 17.
Thursday’s news conference is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at the mayor’s office.
Plenty of positions are open in Fort Wayne, thanks to multiple recent economic development announcements. Excellon Technologies Inc. this week announced the launch of a new product line, which it says could result in more than 400 new jobs by 2019. Health care liability insurer MedPro Group is also growing. The company says it will invest more than $5 million to expand its corporate headquarters and add around 70 jobs by 2018. In May, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) said it would invest more than $1 billion to more than double the size of its Fort Wayne Assembly plant.