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    40 Under Forty 2020: Aimee Peacock

    Monica Benevides Updated: August 17, 2020

    Aimee Peacock impresses not only with her job acumen – under her leadership, FLEXcon had its most profitable fiscal year in two decades – but her collaborative attitude.

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    40 under Forty 2020: Alex Bartholomew

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    In the decade-plus Alex Bartholomew has been at Bartholomew & Co., the financial and investment planning firm’s client assets have ballooned by more than $2 billion and the employee count has more than doubled.

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    40 Under Forty 2020: Tracy Baldelli

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    Tracy Baldelli has what can be an unenviable task of asking people for money.

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    40 Under Forty 2020: Karen Puca

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    Karen Puca oversees a multilingual staff of 39 and is responsible for the center’s operations, patient registration and patient scheduling. Puca proved herself at the center, where she was hired in 2011 as a Portuguese medical interpreter.

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    40 Under Forty 2020: Grace Sliwoski

    Devina Bhalla Updated: August 17, 2020

    Raised in Main South, Grace Sliwoski spends her time committed to her community’s youth and increasing its accessibility to healthy, local food.

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    40 Under Forty 2020: Fouad El-Nemr

    Monica Benevides Updated: August 17, 2020

    Fouad El-Nemr began his career at Nouria in 2010 as an intern and has steadily risen to EVP for the company, which owns 137 convenience stores, 53 car washes and supplies fuel to more than 150 independent gas stations.

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    40 Under Forty 2020: Amanda Theinert

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    It is Becker’s master’s in fine arts program that houses the school’s renowned video game design program, and it’s Amanda Theinert who helped build the curriculum and get the new academic program running.

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    WBJ announces the 40 Under Forty, Class of 2020

    Brad Kane Updated: August 17, 2020

    This year’s 40 Under Forty class is certainly like no other. Although full of the archetypal up-and-coming leaders of Central Massachusetts business organizations, each member of the Class of 2020 has found a way to thrive in the midst of an…

  • Despite federal mandate, minority-owned businesses were not prioritized for PPP loans

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    Chizoma Nosike wouldn’t have known it a year ago, but a federal business loan may be the reason her company, Acclaim Home Health Care in Worcester, is still in operation.

  • Central Mass. colleges face an unprecedented semester

    Grant Welker Updated: August 17, 2020

    Some freshmen at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will spend the fall living at a hotel just off campus. Clark University and Framingham State University have plans in place to isolate students in their dorms while awaiting coronavirus test results.

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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.

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