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‘The greatest equalizer’: Massachusetts educators pitch early college expansion as lawmakers review post-pandemic life
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Manny Cruz, advocacy director of Latinos for Education in Massachusetts and a Salem School Committee member, testifies before lawmakers in a virtual hearing.Screenshot
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Massachusetts education officials on Wednesday pitched an expansion of the early college high school program, praising the programs as an “innovative” approach to counter widening racial disparities among college education rates.
Education experts who testified before the Senate’s “Reimagining Massachusetts” hearing Wednesday repeatedly pointed to early college as a school-to-college-to-job pipeline that has survived the pandemic.
FITCHBURG Hoping to shed light on the city’s changing downtown, Fitchburg State University students have created a “Positivity Tour” of the area, the school recently announced.
Spearheaded by Professor Christa Marr and her students, the tour guides visitors via a customized Google map through various downtown attractions. Points of interest include notable buildings, public art installations, and shops and restaurants.
Marr’s current events and service learning class, which in pre-pandemic years had put on a pop-up petting zoo and family fair, also created weekly scavenger hunts that highlight art and architecture along Fitchburg’s Main Street.
“We knew an event was out of the question this year, but we wanted to get people downtown,” Marr said. “We decided, why not a positivity tour?”
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Country Bank announced that
Russ Fontaine has been promoted to senior vice president, Customer Experience. He is a seasoned banking professional with 30 years of experience in key management and leadership roles in consumer sales and service. Fontaine previously held the position of first vice president, Sales and Market Management with Country Bank, where he oversaw sales and service. One example of a new program introduced by the bank, as a result of Fontaine’s recommendation, was the deployment of a “Voice of the Customer” program that enables the bank to measure and better understand the overall customer experience through various survey metrics. In his newly created role, Fontaine is tasked with leading a bankwide collaborative effort to view things from the customer’s perspective; this applies to both the bank’s external customer and its internal customer. Fontaine is active within the community, serving on the board of directors for the Central/