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Survey: 25% of young people looking to leave Greater Boston region

With the region already grappling with workforce shortages, a quarter of young professionals living in Greater Boston intend to move elsewhere over the next five years as they navigate their career prospects and housing affordability, a new survey released Monday found.

School groups raise alarm, saying funding increases aren’t keeping pace with inflation

Despite injections of aid, school budgets haven't been able to keep up with inflation, the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and Massachusetts Association of School Committees told lawmakers at a recent budget hearing.

Healey, education secretary oppose MTA efforts to remove MCAS graduation requirement

Tutwiler said the field is already flooded with "misinformation" about the proposal, stressing that it would not eliminate the MCAS altogether but would instead decouple results from high school graduation requirements.

Former Suffolk University assistant dean joining Framingham State to lead STEM efforts

Nolfo-Clements has authored a number of scholarly papers about local wildlife, including papers about the squirrel population in the Boston Public Garden and the mammal population on Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor.
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🔒Q&A: Agency on Aging leader named 2024 national presidential scholar

In January, Dixon was named a 2024 presidential scholar, among 60 nationwide to participate in the ninth class of the leadership program collectively put on by the presidential centers for Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Lyndon Johnson.

Movers & Shakers for March 4, 2024

Professionals are being hired and promoted at Central Massachusetts businesses like Geisel Software, Shepherd & Goldstein, Cornerstone Bank, and Consigli Construction.

Delayed nine-story, $350M UMass Chan research facility on track to finish in June

Equipment and temporary construction offices will soon be removed from the school’s quad, allowing for its restoration in anticipation of its commencement ceremony slated for June 2. 

Child care center, office planned for Worcester parcel currently owned by Boy Scouts

A developer is planning on building a child care center and a small office building at a site on Plantation Street in Worcester, adjacent to the Coal Mine Brook and an off-ramp for Interstate 290.
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David Jordan drops interim tag, becomes dean of Clark School of Management

Jordan told WBJ in October that Clark was one of the few organizations able to pull him out of his recent retirement from Seven Hills Foundation & Affiliates.

🔒Reporting discrimination: New, but delayed, reporting requirements seek to identify bias in small business loan approvals and denials

While generally supportive of the new rule, the lending industry is concerned about the onus the new requirements put on banks.
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