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APA in the News

  • PBS Nightly Business Report – January 27, 2012 – Austin Polytechnical Academy (15:45)
  • Shift Change – January 13, 2012 – Inspired by Mondragon, Chicago works to bring back world class manufacturing
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National – January 12, 2012 – Friday Panel: Australia's manufacturing future
  • Gear Technology – November/December 2011 – Best of Times, Worst of Times
  • WGN Radio – December 17, 2011 – Bill Moller interview with Dan Swinney
  • Crain's Chicago Business – October 30, 2011 – Chicago manufacturers find creative ways to fill the labor gap
  • Catalyst Chicago – September 14, 2011 – Austin Polytech: Creating Healthy Futures
  • AustinTalks – August 8, 2011 – Austin Polytech: Creating Healthy Futures
  • The New York Times – June 25, 2011 – A Troubled High School Celebrates a Milestone
  • The Wall Street Journal – June 6, 2011 – Industry Puts Heat on Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need
  • The New York Times – May 19, 2011 – Austin Woes Are Capped by Decision to Fire Teachers and a Student Protest
  • Crain's Chicago Business – May 13, 2011 – Austin Polytech Academy: Manufacturing a future workforce (video)
  • The New York Times – April 21, 2011 – School on Probation Faces a Struggle
  • Medill News Service – March 3, 2011 – Chicago high school will graduate first class trained for high-tech manufacturing
  • The New York Times – March 3, 2011 – Austin Schools Are Merged, Then Unmerged
  • Crain's Chicago Business – December 8, 2010 – Home-field advantage (video)
  • Good – December 6, 2010 – Merging College and Career Prep on Chicago's West Side
  • Crain's Chicago Business – December 6, 2010 – Skilled labor in peak demand at precision manufacturing firms
  • PBS NewsHour – December 1, 2010 – Chicago High School Prepares Students for Real-World Manufacturing Jobs (video)
  • Chicago Tribune – October 23, 2010 – Setting career gears in motion
  • The New York Times – October 14, 2010 – Students Aim for Success With a New View of Vocational School
  • Chicago Sun-Times – April 14, 2010 – At West Side school, a beverage business brews (PDF)
  • CNN – March 24, 2010 – Serving up reality by the cup
  • Austin Weekly News – January 20, 2010 – Austin Polytech goes techno
  • The Austin Weekly News – October 7, 2009 – “Forget Rio – Austin students headed to Spain”
  • The Illinois Manufacturer – Summer 2009 – Bringing businesses to the table: The City of Chicago’s David Hanson speaks up for manufacturers (PDF)
  • Global Corporate Xpansion (GCX) – Summer 2009 – Green Economy Success Requires Trained Talent
  • Chicago Public Schools – June 1, 2009 – Getting the picture: Photo gallery opening at Austin Polytech commemorates school’s founders
  • Great Lakes Manufacturing Council Focus – April 2009 – Chicago’s Green Manufacturing Network
  • Ed Leaf – Spring 2009 – A New Direction in Education (PDF)
  • Catalyst Chicago – February 2009 – Workers in short supply
  • Catalyst Chicago – February 2009 – Chicago’s newest high schools are looking to reinvent career education
  • Northwest Indiana Times – January 29, 2009 – Chicago school offers pointers
  • The Illinois Manufacturer – Winter 2009 – A Renaissance for Chicago’s West Side: Austin Polytechnical Academy builds community support for manufacturing (PDF)
  • Progress Illinois – December 19, 2008 – A Fork in the Road: The Promise of Advanced Manufacturing
  • Progress Illinois – December 3, 2008 – Swinney’s Got a Plan
  • President Obama on Austin Polytech – September 9, 2008 – Austin Polytech is bringing hope back to the community
  • Welding Journal – August 2008 – Chicago Aims to Bring Manufacturing Jobs Back to the City (PDF)
  • Entrepreneur - August 2008 – Old myths, new realities: as retirements near, firms scramble to fill skilled worker positions
  • Washington Business Journal - July 4, 2008 – Boomers or bust? Not if we can help it
  • Progress Illinois – July 2, 2008 – One Year In: A Look at Austin Polytechnical Academy
  • Plant Engineering – June 20, 2008 – Education will be the way out of U.S. manufacturing’s decline
  • The Wall Street Journal – June 5, 2008 – Transforming Inner-City Schools to Train Tomorrow’s Work Force
  • Medill Reports Chicago – May 27, 2008 – Manufacturers confront a human-capital crisis
  • Providence Business News – December 31, 2007 – Tomorrow’s dream job? Think about manufacturing
  • Economic Development America – Winter 2007 – Chicago’s New Direction: Leading the Way in the Race to the Top in Global High-Performance Manufacturing
  • The Illinois Manufacturer – Fall 2007 – Chicago’s first manufacturing-focused high school opens its doors (PDF)
  • The American Prospect – July 12, 2007 – Inner-City Futurism: A new kind of high school in Chicago’s inner city will train its students for high-tech, high-pay manufacturing
  • Austin Weekly News – June 6, 2007 – New Austin Ren 2010 HS: 145 students recruited for manufacturing school
  • CNNMoney.com – June 1, 2007 – Creating the next manufacturing elite: A Chicago school teaches students to run high-tech plants
  • Chi-Town Daily News – May 31, 2007 – New high school to focus on high-tech manufacturing
  • Medill Reports Chicago – May 30, 2007 – Austin high school to train for manufacturing jobs
  • Gear Technology – January/February 2007 – Where manufacturing and education mesh (but associations and grassroots organizations lack public awareness) (PDF)
  • City of Chicago – December 27, 2006 – Employer Needs Drive Workforce Development Successes in 2006

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