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[caption id="attachment_597" align="alignleft" width="720"] Firestone CLC Principal Larry Johnson is congratulated by KSU President Beverly Warren after Johnson's speech at the podium addressing the Akron Public Schools partnership with Kent . . .

[caption id="attachment_570" align="alignleft" width="720"] Superintendent David James receives a standing ovation alongside the Akron Beacon Journal's editor Bruce Winges after speaking on Tuesday. (Leah Klafczynski/Beacon Journal/Ohio.com)[/caption] For the past year, . . .

[caption id="attachment_573" align="alignleft" width="625"] Eric Wise, co-founder of DriveIT, teaches a class at the Software Guild, a coding bootcamp, in 2013. DriveIT, instead, will focus on midcareer training for IT . . .

Three years ago, I had an opportunity to help a group of Akron (OH) civic leaders design a talent development system that could serve a much broader swath of residents and . . .

The manufacturing field is far from dead and the need for workers in the field continues to grow by the day. During Green Mayor Gerard Neugebauer’s Building Bridges for Business . . .

When the Akron Community Foundation and its partners organized the On the Table Greater Akron event to get residents to share their opinions about challenges facing the community and ways to address . . .

AKRON — TechHire Akron/Summit County, coordinated by ConxusNEO, brought information technology (IT) talent ecosystem partners together recently to develop strategies that will mobilize the community to respond to data detailed . . .

To some people, manufacturing still invokes images of dusty floors and greasy machinery. But local students spent the day Friday learning that nowadays, that isn’t necessarily the case. Friday was . . .

Akron's getting a technical problem and some practical solutions all at once. ConxusNEO, a nonprofit that works with area companies to match their workforce needs with local education and training, . . .

Some 6,000 citizens talked over breakfast, lunch and dinner Tuesday, exploring the issues facing Greater Akron. On the Table Greater Akron, a Knight Foundation-funded effort to gauge public opinion, inspired . . .