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Move to vaccinate Mass. teachers intensifies competition for limited shots Robert Weisman © Nancy Lane/Pool Governor Charlie Baker observed a class on Wednesday at West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester, which has been holding in-person learning for several months. Governor Charlie Baker bowed to federal pressure Wednesday and made about 400,000 teachers, school staffers, and child care workers eligible to book COVID-19 shots at Massachusetts vaccination sites on March 1...

Teachers have moved up the list to begin getting their COVID-19 vaccines, but that isn’t the case for other workers, and the unions representing them are frustrated. Teachers can begin getting their vaccines at any of the state’s vaccination sites on March 11, following the federal government’s plan to allow teachers to be vaccinated at pharmacies. The decision comes after weeks of teachers pushing to be moved up the list. But other workers, including those in grocery stores and mass tran...

Starting March 11, teachers, early educators and school staff members will be able to try to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments through any of the state's 170 vaccination sites and mass vaccination sites plan to block off certain days to vaccinate educators, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday morning.

Massachusetts teachers now eligible for vaccines on March 11

bferry@timesobserver.com Photo submitted to Times Observer Warren County Career Center Precision Machine Technology Instructor Colton Black (left) and senior Machine Technology student Hunter Gourley show some of the tooling purchased with over $4,000 in PARSS grant funds. BRIAN FERRY bferry@timesobserver.com A grant will help familiarize a group of Warren County students with the equipment used in their field of study. “The Warren County Career Center(WCCC)Machine Technology Program of Study...

The T may get millions from Congress. Will service still be cut? By Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff,Updated December 27, 2020, 4:41 p.m. Email to a Friend Reduced service could be difficult to restore promptly because of complexities involved in scheduling so many different routes, which usually takes place months in advance, transit advocates have argued.Lane Turner/Globe Staff/file The new federal coronavirus relief bill includes $14 billion to help transit systems fill huge gaps in fare revenue, a...

MBTA weighs service cuts against an unknowable future At the heart of the service cut debate is a murky outlook on transit ridership in a post-pandemic world By Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff,Updated December 13, 2020, 5:59 p.m. Email to a Friend An almost empty Park Street station in December, nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff The MBTA’s oversight board will consider a package of service cuts at its final meeting of the year Monday, though the scale of the reducti...

Treated it as a pmandate to do what he wanted. he actually got a lot done legislatively. he passed comprehensive tax reform by march of that year. no child left behind, the patriot act, sarbanes-oxley. even the campaign finance bill. all came within that first two-year period. so the point is, is that if youre a president, no matter what your poll ratings may be, no matter what people may say about your mandate, if you go in with your agenda, youll do fine. president trump will have a republican...