Technical high schools adapt to COVID’s immense challenge
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 16, 2021
1/21/2921 -Westfield- Students at work in Westfield Technical Academy s auto repair shop. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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The vocational director at Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy says the last 11 months have been difficult, but could have been worse.
“Some districts were caught (unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic). They planned for hybrid last summer and then had to go back to full remote,” said Joao Alves, who supervises the training of 1,300 vocational students in Springfield.
Those students have been learning remotely since September, and having their education delivered much differently than they’d anticipated.
Jeanette DeForge: Chicopee Council considers moving meetings due to frustrating technology problems [The Republican, Springfield, Mass.]
Jan. 19 CHICOPEE Continual problems with the broadcasting of the City Council meetings have grown so bad that council president Shane D. Brooks sometimes relies on texts from his mother to known when the audio shuts off to the viewing public.
Then in the last meeting which drew a lot of attention and a protest over a councilor’s Facebook comments a glitch in the Zoom function on the meeting disconnected half the councilors who were attending the meeting remotely four times during the 40-minute meeting. While those councilors could still hear what was happening, several times it shut down the councilors mid-sentence.
Chicopee to offer free drive-through COVID testing for city residents
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
Chicopee Comprehensive High School will be the site of free drive-through testing for Chicopee residents, municipal employees and first responders beginning Tuesday, December 22. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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CHICOPEE Free, drive-through COVID-19 testing will begin Tuesday at Chicopee Comprehensive High School for city residents over the age of 2, first responders, and city employees and their families.
“This new testing site will administer up to 20,000 tests for up to three months or until the tests run out,” said Chicopee Mayor John L. Vieau, who added that up to 400 tests would be done per day.