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Worcester nonprofits accuse city of ‘blatant’ racial inequity in grant funding
Worcester has to decide by the end of the year how it will spend its remaining $44.3 million in federal pandemic relief money, GBH reports. With that deadline looming, some local nonprofit leaders are criticizing the city for inequitably dispersing some of the money in prior grant rounds — and urging officials to do better.
‘Alarm bells should be going off.’ MCAS English scores down again in Massachusetts.
BOSTON — It’s a safe bet that Woody Allen, who is often credited with the coinage, wasn’t thinking about student testing when he remarked that 90 percent of success is just showing up. But he might as well have been. New Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores released on Tuesday show a jarring, continued decline […]
Worcester Hosts Free Block Party on Saturday Sept. 28
WORCESTER – A Health and Housing Block Party on Saturday, Sept. 28, provides free health screenings and interactive workshops on housing and health at Community Healthlink, at 72 Jaques St., in the Chandler Street area. The City of Worcester Department of Economic Development Housing Development Division, the U.S. Department...
‘I don’t read the polls’: Mass. House Speaker Mariano shrugs off Legislature’s poor marks
The top Democrat in the State House shrugged off the results of a new poll showing widespread public dissatisfaction with the Legislature’s job performance. “I don’t read the polls,” state House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano, D-3rd Norfolk, told reporters Thursday during a brief interview at the State House.
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