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students

Amherst College wins $1M prize for helping low-income students

AMHERST – Amherst College received a $1 million award that recognizes its programs that help "high achieving students from low-income families" succeed, including underwriting study abroad and internships. The Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the most substantial award given to

Latin America

Faith-based groups rush to aid quake-stricken Ecuador

QUITO, Ecuador (RNS) – Emergency teams from U.S. faith-based humanitarian relief agencies are on the ground in northwest Ecuador to help survivors of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shattered buildings and took the lives of at least 413 people. The Saturday quake destroyed more than 300 buildings, buckled overpasses

Massachusetts

Baker gains allies in push for voc-tech school aid

BOSTON – Advocates pushing for more resources to help move vocational students into careers are aligned with Gov. Charlie Baker as they seek budgetary increases this year and $75 million in bond authorization to buy school equipment and pay for expansions. Rep. Alice Peisch, a Wellesley Democrat who is co-chairwoman of

boston

Snow relief aid tied to January storm finally arrives

BOSTON – Massachusetts will receive an estimated $120 million in federal disaster relief tied to the pummeling with snow that the state endured last winter, the largest award of public assistance disaster funding in the state's history. Gov. Charlie Baker announced the aid at the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

senate

Congress will vote on defunding Planned Parenthood

Written by Alan Fram WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will vote before its August recess on a Republican effort to block federal aid to Planned Parenthood, GOP leaders said Tuesday, as anti-abortion groups clamored for action by lawmakers. Democrats said they will strongly oppose what they called the latest Republican effort