With the high demand for special education teachers throughout the country, this state-approved program will assist teachers looking to specialize in the field.
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Dick Hoyt, who pushed his son’s wheelchair in 32 Boston Marathons, dies at age 80
Dick Hoyt first pushed his son, who is quadriplegic has cerebral palsy, in the Boston Marathon in 1980.
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Men’s college notebook: Tourney field set with no replacement teams needed
All teams are in Indiana for the NCAA tournament except Virginia, which has most of its players end up in quarantine after one tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
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One in 4 U.S. House members have not been vaccinated
Democrats have rejected the notion from Republicans that a 75% vaccination rate is a sufficient level to reopen the House of Representatives.
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IRS pushes filing deadline to May 17 as agency grapples with backlog of returns
Lawmakers fear that long-unresolved troubles at the Internal Revenue Service could undercut the Biden administration’s new economic recovery efforts.
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Fed expects to keep its key rate near zero through 2023
The Federal Reserve is raising its forecast for inflation, predicting it will surpass the Fed’s 2% annual target after years of ultra-low inflation.
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Women’s college notebook: UConn freshman leads AP All-America team
Paige Bueckers lived up to high expectations to become just the third freshman named to the AP first team.
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Drop in state aid to education a budget concern in Brunswick
Officials said by far the biggest red flag appears to be a decrease of more than three-quarters of a million dollars in state education subsidies.
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Treasury: $242 billion in new stimulus relief payments have already been sent
The Treasury Department says it has sent out 90 million economic impact payments since President Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan last week.
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Bruins notebook: Former UMaine goalie Jeremy Swayman will get his chance – just not yet
Boston went with Dan Vladar as a fill-in starter on Tuesday night, but Swayman – a Hobey Baker Award finalist at Maine last year – was in the conversation to make his first NHL start.