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Environment

  • Solar without subsidy?

    Laura Finaldi January 18, 2016

    As Massachusetts lawmakers debate this month whether to raise the net-metering cap on solar, utility National Grid has thrown new evidence in the ring showing the solar industry may be ready to start standing on its own with fewer subsidies.

    Laura Finaldi January 18, 2016
  • Apps not always the best mobile solution

    Laura Finaldi January 18, 2016

    As mobile phones and tablets start to become the Internet device of choice, Central Massachusetts businesses are finding new ways to reach their customers and realizing there are more options than apps.

    Laura Finaldi January 18, 2016
  • Investing in millennials is an investment in Worcester

    Aivi Nguyen Special To The Worcester Business Journal January 18, 2016

    Anyone even remotely involved in the Worcester business community knows that there is a laser-focus on revitalizing the region's portfolio.

    Aivi Nguyen Special To The Worcester Business Journal January 18, 2016
  • UMass Memorial returns to investment grade at perfect time

    January 18, 2016

    UMass Memorial Health Care has been returned to an investment-grade status weeks before seeking $177 million in financing for future projects and refinancing of existing debt.

    January 18, 2016
  • Movers & Shakers

    January 18, 2016

    ELIZABETH SMALL is now general counsel at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

    January 18, 2016
  • State seeks to tap into $32B digital health market

    January 7, 2016

    Gov. Charlie Baker and a litany of Massachusetts healthcare officials announced Thursday a new public-private partnership to help the state to grab a bigger slice of the $32-billion digital health industry.

    January 7, 2016
  • Users, not taxpayers, should shoulder public transit burden

    January 4, 2016

    For efficient point-to-point travel, almost nothing beats the car, especially over short distances.

    January 4, 2016
  • TALK BACK

    January 4, 2016

    CHAMBER: TAX RATE HURTS BUSINESS RECRUITINGA vote by city council halted a slow transition back to a single tax rate that had been underway for five years.

    January 4, 2016
  • Movers & Shakers

    January 4, 2016

    APRIL A. PERRY was promoted to assistant vice president/consumer loan underwriting manager for Workers' Credit Union in Fitchburg. A 33-year veteran of the union, Perry most recently served as its consumer loan underwriting manager. Over the years,

    January 4, 2016
  • Mass. group sounds alarm over lifting oil export ban

    State House News Service December 18, 2015

    The $1.1 trillion spending bill that cleared the U.S. House Friday with support from Massachusetts delegation members includes tax credit extensions for solar and wind energy industries but those measures are "dramatically overshadowed" by the

    State House News Service December 18, 2015
  • MassDEP fines Leominster company $14K

    Laura Finaldi December 17, 2015

    The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is demanding a Leominster asbestos removal contractor pay a previously suspended $14,312.50 penalty after it found the company violated state asbestos regulations twice in one year.

    Laura Finaldi December 17, 2015
  • Activists want to ban microbeads in products

    State House News Service December 16, 2015

    Environmentalists on Tuesday pressed lawmakers to take further action to keep ecosystems free of potentially toxic plastics by banning tiny plastic particles from body soap, face wash, toothpaste and other personal care products.

    State House News Service December 16, 2015
  • Securities regulators investigating closure of credit fund

    State House News Service December 15, 2015

    State securities regulators issues a subpoena Monday as part of their investigation into a company that officials say specializes in risky bonds and was heavily concentrated in junk bonds, subordinated debt and unrated securities of distressed

    State House News Service December 15, 2015
  • Workers' Credit Union partners with Monty Tech; opens 17th branch

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015

    Fitchburg-based Workers' Credit Union has partnered with the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School to open its 17th branch.

    Sam Bonacci December 7, 2015
  • Brian W. Thompson

    Brad Kane December 7, 2015

    Brian W. Thompson heads the leading small business lender in Central Massachusetts and the biggest Worcester-headquartered bank -- with $1.7 billion in deposits -- but it is his community connections that make him so intertwined with the business

    Brad Kane December 7, 2015
  • Eric Dickson resuscitates UMass Memorial

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015

    Dr. Eric Dickson never set out to be a hospital administrator, but leadership roles have tended to fall into his lap as he practiced as an emergency room physician over the years, thanks to his take-charge nature.

    Emily Micucci December 7, 2015

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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.