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Q&A: Soxcessful founder Michael Agbortoko Jr. helps clients dream big

Brad Kane Updated: June 22, 2020

Michael Agbortoko, Jr. founded Soxcessful in Worcester’s Midtown Mall last year, both as a space for creatives and a business linking clients up with manufacturers all over the world.
Startups are forced to innovate as pandemic has investors uneasy

Riley Garand Updated: June 22, 2020

With the coronavirus remaining a part of life in the United States and the national economy now in a recession, startups are facing a time when survival could be more difficult than it has in years.
Racial inequalities persist in the Central Mass. cannabis industry

Monica Benevides Updated: June 22, 2020

More than two years have passed since entrepreneur Ross Bradshaw embarked on the licensing process to open New Dia, a recreational cannabis dispensary in Worcester.
Role of CEOs on societal issues has shifted

Grant Welker Updated: June 22, 2020

It wasn’t long ago CEOs were notably absent from such societal debates. For decades, business heads were advised not to talk about hot-button issues such as religion or politics.
As one of the few Central Mass. black business leaders, David Connell makes sure the YMCA is committed to the community

Devina Bhalla Updated: June 22, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread protesting against racial inequality, the YMCA of Central Massachusetts’ doors are always open to continue to work towards equality with all groups.
Black businesses matter: Despite their importance to disadvantaged communities, black-owned businesses comprise less than 1% of Worcester County firms

Grant Welker Updated: June 22, 2020

At such a perilous time, the Worcester County business community is hampered by an uncomfortable problem: In the homogeneous world of business leadership in Worcester County, top officials at the area’s largest and best-known institutions are almost…
YWCA, Kennedy Health Center to honor Juneteenth in Worcester

Monica Benevides Updated: June 19, 2020

A small number of area businesses and organizations plan to commemorate Juneteenth in some form on Friday this year, another indicator of renewed momentum behind the Black Lives Matter movement.
Becker joins initiative for first-generation college students

Riley Garand June 18, 2020

Becker College in Worcester has been selected to join the inaugural cohort of First Scholars Network institutions, a group working for first-generation college students.
The future of medical marijuana, after the coronavirus spike

Monica Benevides June 17, 2020

Over the course of the last year and a half, the medical and recreational cannabis retailers have grown into two very different yet overlapping businesses, largely coexisting and occasionally competing.
Three UMass Medical School researchers are studying ways to stop, treat and protect against COVID-19

Devina Bhalla June 17, 2020

A trio of researchers at UMass Medical School in Worcester are attacking the coronavirus pandemic from three different angles, as part of a $17-million Massachusetts effort to help the world combat the disease which has killed more than 400,000…

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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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