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Shawsheen Tech and Billerica schools start school year requiring masks

Shawsheen Tech follows Billerica health order for masking in-school

Shawsheen Tech students make waves at SkillsUSA nationals

Shawsheen Tech nurse and teacher save man's life at graduation

Wicked Local As the Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School class of 2021 prepared to walk one last time out onto the football field to graduate they had no idea the life of a graduate s family member in the process of being saved on that same turf. Six-minutes. This is how long it takes to reverse the damage that starts after the body begins to lose oxygen after a heart attack, according to Shawsheen Health Assisting Instructor Karen Meister, RN BSN. Meister knows this not only from years of teaching, but from practical experience as a critical care nurse, and put her know-how to the test on Thursday, June 3, when a man collapsed in the minutes prior to graduation.

Technical high school admissions standards reevaluated by DESE in MA

By Joy Hosford, Ross Cristantiello and Mike Gaffney Saugus Advertiser Major changes could be on the way for Massachusetts vocational schools. With more students applying and advocates pushing to make admissions more equitable, the process by which a student actually gets into a vocational school could be changed drastically.  Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner (DESE) Jeffrey Riley proposed changes to the admission process earlier this year, and according to State House News the proposed changes  .would give schools flexibility to set their own policies that promote equitable access while restricting the use of criteria that disproportionately exclude students in protected classes.