The Worcester Regional Research Bureau announced Thursday the recipients of the 2021 Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards.
Ellen Ganley, Chair of the Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards Committee, said, “As Chair of the TSG Awards Committee, I am impressed by the caliber of this year’s nominees. So many public servants truly stepped up for our communities during this unprecedented and challenging year. This year’s recipients truly represent exceptional public service, well beyond the call of duty.”
Paul Matthews, Executive Director and CEO of The Research Bureau, said “It’s always an honor for the Bureau to recognize exemplary public servants with the Thomas Green Awards, but this year we’ve all experienced firsthand the extraordinary commitment of so many municipal employees through the pandemic response. Our thanks and appreciation go to all of this year’s honorees for extraordinary public service, as well as to their peers and colleagues working in our sch
Jane Week: In ‘Escape from Worcester City Hall’ you can put your puzzle-solving skills to work to break free from municipal government
Updated 12:49 PM;
Municipal governing can be tedious and boring at times, but hopefully your virtual escape from Worcester City Hall goes better than a typical board meeting.
You can put your puzzle skills to the test to free yourself from the city’s home of municipal affairs in the Worcester Regional Research Bureau’s new virtual escape room game, “Escape from Worcester City Hall.”
Meant as an informative exercise for people to learn about Worcester’s municipal government workings, the virtual escape room game is the bureau’s substitute for an in-person Jane Week celebration this year.
WORCESTER For the first time in more than a year, the city’s elementary and middle schools returned to full-time, in-person learning Monday.
The School Department, meanwhile, is also planning for the next target date, May 17, when high schoolers are scheduled to go back to five days a week of in-person learning.
Monday, at least, went “great,” according to Superintendent Maureen Binienda.
“There were no big issues that I know of,” she said.
She credited the smooth transition to Worcester’s monthlong acclimation to hybrid learning, which began for most students March 29. Under that model, students went to school twice a week, and received remote education the rest of the time.
Data shows a racial demographic divide among Worcester students returning to in-person learning
Updated May 03, 2021;
A slight demographic divide remains among Worcester Public Schools pre-K-8 students who have opted for in-person learning and those who have opted out, a new briefing from the Worcester Regional Research Bureau reveals.
Worcester Public Schools resumed full in-person learning for all pre-K-8 students Monday. Out of the district’s 16,393 students in elementary, middle and alternative programs, 11,329 students, or 69%, opted to return to in-person learning while 4,541 students, or 28%, chose to stay in remote learning. There were 523 families, or 3%, who did not respond.
When the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced that districts would be required to offer fully in-person instruction for K-5 students by April 5 and for grade 6-8 students by April 28, Worcester applied for and received a waiver to delay its full-time return to May 3 fo