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Entrepreneurs

  • Worcester 300 trivia contest, part 10: The best thing

    Updated: May 30, 2022

    Trivia question: What kitchen task was this device invented by the Hamblin & Russell Manufacturing Co. used for?

    Updated: May 30, 2022
  • WBJ webinar: Relationships, financing & market insight are key to small biz success

    Alexander MacDougall May 27, 2022

    Small business owners can grow and manage their companies successfully within the area’s economic landscape if they lean into the established support networks, have a keen understanding of finances, and know their strengths and weaknesses,

    Alexander MacDougall May 27, 2022
  • Venture Forum to host five-minute pitch competition at BrickBox Theater

    Alexander MacDougall May 26, 2022

    Aspiring entrepreneurs from Central Massachusetts will have the opportunity to pitch their idea in front of a live audience on May 31 to seek additional funding for their start-up venture.

    Alexander MacDougall May 26, 2022
  • MBI incubator to expand again, following $7M Briden St. purchase

    Katherine Hamilton May 25, 2022

    Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives will break ground Wednesday morning on an expanded biomanufacturing center in Worcester after purchasing the property for more than $7.1 million.

    Katherine Hamilton May 25, 2022
  • Russian problems: How Ukraine war fallout could impact IPG Photonics

    Alexander MacDougall Updated: May 16, 2022

    The severing of economic ties between the U.S. and Russia is likely to prove a challenge for IPG Photonics, which was founded in Russia and has long-standing ties to the country.

    Alexander MacDougall Updated: May 16, 2022
  • Looking back at PPP’s legacy in Central Mass.

    Alexander MacDougall Updated: May 16, 2022

    Overall, more than 20,000 PPP loans for a total of $1.8 billion were given out to businesses across Worcester County, with more than 4,800 and $450 million of those loans going to businesses within the city of Worcester, according to data from the

    Alexander MacDougall Updated: May 16, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Damien Goudreau, Nate Lanier, and Dean Rohan

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    In fewer than 10 years, Tree House snowballed into the largest brewer in Central Massachusetts, and it shows no signs of slowing.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Jon Weaver

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    Jon Weaver is an instrumental figure in the world of biotech as leader of Massachusetts’ longest-running biotech incubator.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Roy Nascimento

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    At 650 members, Roy Nascimento leads the second-largest Central Massachusetts chamber of commerce, and the only one with its own microloan lending division approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Ulysses Youngblood

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    Ulysses Youngblood likes being an unassuming man, who people would never guess runs his own cannabis business or teaches about entrepreneurship at Clark University.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Weidong Wang

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    If there’s one person who took Central Massachusetts’ real estate world by storm this year, it’s Weidong Wang.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Anh Vu Sawyer

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    As the leader of the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts for the past 10 years, Anh Vu Sawyer has created an incubator of sorts for the region’s immigrant population, providing resources to help newcomers start their own businesses.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Bob Mumgaard

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    Few companies worldwide have the ability to alter the entire course of human history, particularly our relationship with energy and limited global resources.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • 2022 Power 50: Grace Lam

    Updated: May 2, 2022

    In an age when sustainable farms are struggling to maintain relevance, Grace Lam has cracked the code to the modern-day customer.

    Updated: May 2, 2022
  • WBJ Hall of Fame: Ani & Amar Kapur have found success for 50 years

    Norman Bell Updated: March 7, 2022

    As entrepreneurs, when Amar and Ani Kapur reflect on their amazing success story, the Worcester community and Worcester Polytechnic Institute come up frequently.

    Norman Bell Updated: March 7, 2022
  • The year of the startup: Central Mass. entrepreneurialism soared to new heights in 2021

    Monica Benevides Updated: February 21, 2022

    The Great Resignation is plaguing employers large and small, and one hotly debated question has hiring managers asking where, exactly, all the quitting employees are moving to.

    Monica Benevides Updated: February 21, 2022

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Will the new lottery-based admissions systems for vocational-technical high schools make the economy better?
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Massachusetts is implementing a new lottery admissions system for vocational-technical high schools, starting with the 2026-2027 school year. Proposed by the Healey Administration, the new lottery system is an attempt to expand access to voc-tech schools, giving schools with more applicants than seats the choice of either a weighted lottery, which takes aspects like attendance and discipline records into account, or a non-weighted lottery, which does not take academic performance or discipline issues into consideration.

Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and supporters of the lottery have defended the change to a lottery system, saying it will make admissions more equitable while the state works to expand access to voc-tech schools. The lottery system has been criticized by business groups and educational leaders, who have said lotteries will water down admission standards and disrupt the pathway of top students into high-demand trades.