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  • Health Connector joins with SBA to spread health care information

    State House News Service October 4, 2018

    The Massachusetts Health Connector agreed to an alliance with a federal agency to help spread information to companies about its insurance program for businesses with 50 or fewer employees.

    State House News Service October 4, 2018
  • Fidelity Bank sets up $300K microloan funds in Gardner, Winchendon, Templeton

    Grant Welker October 2, 2018

    Fidelity Bank has set up microloan funds to help small businesses in Gardner and Winchendon, where Colonial Co-Operative Bank, with which Fidelity has merged, had branches.

    Grant Welker October 2, 2018
  • Slow pot industry rollout shrinks tax estimate

    State House News Service October 2, 2018

    Saying Massachusetts has missed out on $16 million in marijuana taxes, officials behind the 2016 legal marijuana ballot question on Monday pointed to staffing levels and bureaucracy at the Cannabis Control Commission as potential reasons for the

    State House News Service October 2, 2018
  • 10 Things I Know About … Millennial employee engagement

    Danielle J. Clark October 1, 2018

    Millennials are the largest share of the workforce and by 2025, Millennials will be 75 percent of workers.

    Danielle J. Clark October 1, 2018
  • Let’s get creative

    October 1, 2018

    In the last decade, Central Massachusetts has become a hot spot for creative restaurateurs, brewers and distillers growing their locally owned establishments. Who knew that's where we'd find a niche that's really building the region's brand.

    October 1, 2018
  • Grand Bargain fallout: Restaurants look to price increases, staffing cuts to survive 80% minimum wage hike

    Zachary Comeau October 1, 2018

    Balancing costs and payroll in the restaurant industry already with a low-profit margin is now going to be more difficult with wages for restaurant employees increasing over the next five years.

    Zachary Comeau October 1, 2018
  • Cannabis regulators begin final inspections

    State House News Service September 21, 2018

    Marijuana regulators have completed at least one final inspection of a retail marijuana shop and more are scheduled.

    State House News Service September 21, 2018
  • Funding a startup begins with the basics

    Anthony Price September 17, 2018

    Long before a startup gets its first customer, the founders are thinking about solving a problem and dominating their market by releasing their disruptive product into the world.

    Anthony Price September 17, 2018
  • Companies, advocates say marijuana firms are agreeing to excessive host community payments

    Zachary Comeau September 17, 2018

    According to marijuana industry advocates and lawmakers, cities and towns ask for what they call exorbitant cash payments and services, which advocates say don't comply with the law.

    Zachary Comeau September 17, 2018
  • Marijuana growers threaten lawsuit against CCC

    State House News Service September 12, 2018

    An organization representing Massachusetts marijuana growers is considering a lawsuit to compel the Cannabis Control Commission to review the statutorily-required agreements between marijuana businesses and their host towns.

    State House News Service September 12, 2018
  • 40 Under Forty: The Goldilocks of food truck operators

    Brad Kane September 12, 2018

    For the 40 Under Forty photo shoot at the Highland Street food trucks in Worcester, we were trying to showcase a bustling urban area with creative dining options.

    Brad Kane September 12, 2018
  • 40 Under Forty: Four strangers at Hanover Theatre

    Brad Kane September 10, 2018

    Undoubtedly, one of the biggest obstacles in trying to get members of the WBJ 40 Under Forty together to take great photos on location is they are almost always complete strangers.

    Brad Kane September 10, 2018
  • Central Mass. recipients share in $2.9M workforce training funds

    Grant Welker September 7, 2018

    Five entities based in or connected to Central Massachusetts have received a share of nearly $2.9 million in state workforce training funds.

    Grant Welker September 7, 2018
  • 40 Under Forty: Water or vodka?

    Brad Kane September 7, 2018

    If you were in a museum full of Russian art, surrounded by Russian artifacts and symbols like nesting dolls, had four shot glasses and a bottle of vodka, what would you do?

    Brad Kane September 7, 2018
  • MWCC joins MIT, BU in prison education consortium

    Zachary Comeau September 5, 2018

    Mount Wachusett Community College is joining the likes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 12 other Massachusetts colleges in a new prison education consortium.

    Zachary Comeau September 5, 2018
  • 40 Under Forty: The dragon inside Bancroft Tower

    Brad Kane September 5, 2018

    The prize for best prop brought to the Bancroft Tower shoot – really, all 10 of the 40 Under Forty photo shoots – goes to Michael Alden.

    Brad Kane September 5, 2018

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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.