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    2020 Power 50: Denis P. Dowdle

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Before the Pawtucket Red Sox came along, Dowdle was going to build something off Madison Street in Worcester similar to what he put up at the former U.S. Steel facility in Quinsigamond Village with a Walmart Supercenter-anchored development.

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    2020 Power 50: Michael F. Collins, MD

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Collins is by far the longest tenured of any leader in the UMass system. That’s brought stability to UMass Medical School as well as results.

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    2020 Power 50: Dr. Luis G. Pedraja

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Enrollment at Quinsigamond Community College spiked during the Great Recession as people out of work turned to new job training to get their careers back in motion. The same vital role for QCC appears headed into a period in some ways could be far…

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    2020 Power 50: Laurie Leshin

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    When Gov. Charlie Baker needed someone from the higher education industry to serve on his advisory board on how to best reopen the Mass. economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, he turned to Leshin.

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    2020 Power 50: Eric W. Dickson, MD, MHCM, FACEP

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Long before Dickson took on the task of leading a 13,000-employee hospital system through the coronavirus pandemic – and managed a related field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester – UMass Memorial Health Care’s president and CEO proved himself…

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    2020 Power 50: Michelle Jones-Johnson

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Knowing talent is dispersed equally throughout the population but opportunity isn’t, since coming to WPI Jones-Johnson has focused on attracting, developing, and retaining talent distinguishing WPI in the competitive marketplace.

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    2020 Power 50: Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J.

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Boroughs, president since 2012, has been a master fundraiser, as the school's endowment ballooned close to $800 million heading into the 2018-19 school year and the college wraps up a $400-million fundraising campaign in June.

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    2020 Power 50: Kola A. Akindele

    Updated: May 25, 2020

    Since UMMS was founded nearly 50 years ago, it has been a generator of healthcare professionals, medical research, and biomedical companies. Akindele, though, ensures the 6,000-employee, $1-billion organization contributes in other ways.

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    The 2020 most influential people in Central Mass. business

    Brad Kane Updated: May 25, 2020

    It’s not about having power. It’s about using it.

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    Collection bill stays in legislature as UI bill moves to Baker

    May 22, 2020

    With two COVID-19 bills on the Legislature's plate Thursday, only one dealing with the unemployment insurance system traversed the final mile to the governor's desk before both chambers broke for Memorial Day weekend.

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Will the new lottery-based admissions systems for vocational-technical high schools make the economy better?
Poll Description

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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