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Plugging in more stuff can slash Cascadia’s climate-warming emissions at modest cost. But that means moving much faster.
Amid the 1970s Arab oil embargo, a gasoline company’s TV ads showed an aging wooden windmill. As the wind died, it slowed to stillness.
The ad asked: “But what do you do when the wind stops?”
For the next several decades fossil fuel providers continued to denigrate renewable energy. Big power utilities piled on with claims that fluctuating solar and wind power could black out the grid. Even the U.S. Energy Department deemed renewables “too rare, too diffuse, too distant, too uncertain, and too ill-timed” to meaningfully contribute, as a top agency analyst put it in 2005.
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12 NPHS students earn CNA licenses
The first class of seniors to earn their CNA license at North Providence High School are Renatta Andrade, Annette Gwe, Camilla Pinhiero, Amber Casey, Jacklyn Nolan, Jewliana Barry, Talia Santamaro, Amari Stewart and Rachel Meier. (Breeze photo by Nicole Dotzenrod)
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Twelve North Providence High School seniors have made history as the first cohort to earn their CNA licenses through the school’s P-TECH health care program.
The P-TECH (Pathway-Technology Early College High) program was established at NPHS in 2017. It is an accredited career and technical education program focused on health care, placing students on a pathway that enables them to graduate with a high school diploma, a free associate degree from the Community College of Rhode Island, and relevant workplace experience.
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Bradley W. Parks
Originally published on January 21, 2021 6:31 am
Oregon’s graduation data for the class of 2020 is out, and the state’s graduation rate has increased for another year. The state’s four-year graduation rate is 82.6%, up more than 10 points from six years ago.
The state’s five-year completion rate, which includes students who earn GEDs or modified diplomas, was 87.2% in 2020, another all-time high.
The data shows an increase in graduation rates for specific student groups, including African American students up almost 6%, and Latino students up 3%.
One of the largest gains was with the state’s homeless students, whose grad rate rose to 60% in 2020, an increase of five percentage points.