In initial vote, Worcester councilors narrowly back removal of school officers telegram.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegram.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Verizon awards grant to Worcester providing internet hotspots to students
WORCESTER School officials Thursday night announced the district had received a new grant from Verizon to provide internet hotspots to students at 11 secondary schools for up to four years.
According to the School Department, the telecommunications company, which Worcester contracted with prior to this school year to provide hotspots to thousands of homes, will provide hotspots to any student without reliable internet service at those schools.
There was not a monetary amount for the grant available as of Thursday night, however.
Access to internet has become one of the major issues facing the district this year as it continues to instruct students remotely at their homes during the pandemic.
The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men in college hechingerreport.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hechingerreport.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Pandemic Is Speeding Up The Mass Disappearance Of Men From College
Debrin Adon, a senior at the University Park Campus School, in Worcester, Mass. His male classmates “don t think they’re smart enough” for college, Adon said. “They doubt themselves a little bit because of their life and what they’ve been through and what they’ve been seen as.” Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.
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Disappearance Of Men From College Campuses
WORCESTER, Mass. When Debrin Adon and his male classmates talk about going to college, it always comes down to one thing.
Then & Now: Old Freeland Street School, Worcester
WORCESTER – This building, the former Freeland Street School, is one of many turn-of-the-century schoolhouses in the city still standing.
Built in 1885, the school for most of the 20th century was a neighborhood elementary school, located on the street of the same name, at the corner of Lowell Street. And despite being deemed “obsolete and substandard” by the state by the end of the 1950s, the school ended up having decades left.
On one hand, the school was frequently the target of replacement plans – in the 1960s, for example, school officials had planned to combine it with the old Canterbury Street School. And even by the mid-20th century, Freeland Street already had a reputation for “creaking floors and (an) antique heating system” and “broken windows and broken plaster,” as the Telegram put it at the time.