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Then & Now: Worcester Industrial Technical Institute, 26 Salisbury St., Worcester And for those who roamed the halls, perhaps the prefered reference is WITI. Opened in 1960, the post-secondary career training school at the time was called by the Worcester school district’s vocational education head “the first completely technical institute in the state.” Students there, who were high school graduates from all across the state, learned trades like metal technology, data processing, and machine and tool drafting, before being "scooped up" by eager employers in the region, as the Telegram...

Worcester schools distributing science kits to homebound students WORCESTER – The district this week will begin distributing thousands of science kits to elementary schools across the city, as part of a new drive to enable students to do more hands-on, experiment-based work. In all, the School Department expects to give out 11,675 kits to students in prekindergarten through sixth grade over the next two weeks, which school staff assembled with about $70,000 in Title IV federal funding received by the district. The initiative is the largest-scale effort to get actual school materials into th...

School Committee OK's emergency admissions policy for Worcester Tech high school WORCESTER – The School Committee this week approved new emergency admissions guidelines for Worcester Technical High School to account for the effects of COVID-19 this school year, with a more long-term update to admissions standards coming down the line. Worcester Tech, the district’s popular vocational school, typically has a waitlist of several hundred students each year. But even though state records showed the school enrolled 1,481 students this past fall, a new high, Principal Siobhan Petrella told the...