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ACTON, Mass. Some Massachusetts teachers are making it clear they don t plan to go back into their classrooms full-time, at least not quietly.
Some took to the streets on Saturday to protest, a day after an 8-3 vote by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education cleared the way for the state s education commissioner to eventually take remote and hybrid learning models off the table for local school districts.
Teachers lined the streets in Acton waving signs, calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to back down on his latest return-to-school plan. We re disappointed that Governor Baker has not worked hard to prioritize vaccination for school staff members, Mike Balulescu, president of the local teachers union said. That s why we re out here today.
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Vermont State Colleges Trustees approve consolidation, campuses to stay open
The Vermont State College System Board of Trustees have voted to move forward with the proposal outlined by the state’s Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont. The proposal will unify the three residential colleges, Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College, under a common accreditation in Academic Year 2023-2024 while maintaining the Community College of Vermont as a separate institution. Additionally, the system will streamline services across the institutions through significant administrative consolidation. The board said it is committed to maintaining the current campus locations. A single president of the consolidated colleges would take over by January 2022.
Published: 5 Mar 2021, 13:45
By:
Andy Colthorpe
Another solar-plus-storage project on a former municipal landfill site in Massachusets, executed by Kearsage with NEC. Image: Kearsage.
Stem Inc has completed a front-of-the-meter solar-plus-storage project in Massachusetts that will participate in New England’s wholesale markets run by system operator New England ISO.
The company is better known for deploying behind-the-meter battery storage for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, using Stem’s proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and software to coordinate peak shaving to help customers save money on electricity costs while also aggregating the batteries to use in revenue-generating opportunities such as grid services markets.