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12/24/2011 Indianapolis Business Journal
The Mind Trust’s provocative new report on the future of Indianapolis Public Schools is sure to lead to a vigorous debate over how the district should operate, including whom the public should hold accountable for its performance—the publicly elected board that controls it now or the mayor of Indianapolis.
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12/18/2011 The Indianapolis Star
The Mind Trust has done this city a tremendous favor with today’s release of its dramatic plan to overhaul Indianapolis Public Schools. Whether the details of the plan map out the best course for the city and IPS for the future is an open question — and one that deserves robust discussion in the months ahead.
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10/15/2011 Indianapolis Business Journal
The Mind Trust is laying plans to hand out up to five $1 million grants next June to teams of educational entrepreneurs who would use the money to develop and launch innovative charter schools in Indianapolis.
It often takes bold action to produce meaningful results. That makes us hopeful that a bold move by The Mind Trust will make a difference in the lives of public-school students in Indianapolis for years to come.
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10/8/2011 Indianapolis Business Journal
The education innovation group already has nearly $3.9 million in hand—including donations from the city of Indianapolis and the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation—to fund the grants, and says it has two more national funders interested. Mind Trust plans to hand out three to five grants in June 2012, and one or two annually for a few years after that.
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10/3/2011 Inside Indiana Business
The OneAmerica Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce its largest contribution ever to support K-12 public education initiatives. The Foundation is making a $100,000 contribution to The Mind Trust in 2011 and will consider additional annual contributions of $100,000 in each of the next four years (2012 through 2015) for a total gift of $500,000. The OneAmerica Foundation is the charitable arm of OneAmerica Financial Partners, Inc.
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10/1/2011 Indianapolis Business Journal
David Harris has been named a member of this year's Who's Who in Education by the Indianapolis Business Journal. David is the founder and CEO of The Mind Trust.
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9/25/2011 The Indianapolis Star
The Mind Trust is a wonderful way to bring together the innovative minds that want a brighter future in education.
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9/15/2011 The Indianapolis Star
The city would team up with The Mind Trust... to incubate quality charters, using up to $2 million from his RebuildIndy program as startup funds to help attract five high- quality charter school organizations to open schools.
The goal is to attract high-quality education reform organizations here and to invite charter school operators with strong track records to open schools here.
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