Page 18 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, Fabruary 4, 2022 PROPOSALS | FROM PAGE 15 • $41M increase for special education circuit breaker reimbursement for local cities and towns • $64.8M in additional funding for charter school reimbursement • In addition to Chapter 70 funding, 1. February 4 is National Wear Red Day – to raise awareness about what disease? 2. The February flower is primrose; what does the name primrose mean? 3. When making cowboy (campfire) coffee, what inedible ingredient is sometimes added? 4. On Feb. 5, 1825, in Troy, N.Y., Hannah Montague created the first of what type of collar for her husband’s shirts? 5. Do pandas have fur at birth? 6. Legend has it that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were part of what group of seven? 7. On Feb. 6, 1988, who made a slam dunk from the free throw line to win his second-straight slam dunk contest? 8. The world’s biggest snow maze, Snowlandia in Zakopane, is in what country: Finland, Poland or Switzerland? 9. On Feb. 7, 1867, what popular Wisconsin-born children’s book series author was born? 10. On what continent is the deepest ice sheet on land (having a base below sea level), the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Marie Byrd Land? 11. In Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” who said, “We are so very ’umble”? 12. In what country would you find a pogonip, which is a dense winter fog having frozen particles in deep mountain valleys? 13. Does chocolate grow on vines or trees? 14. On Feb. 8, 1828, what French author of adventure novels, including “Around the World in Eighty Days,” was born? 15. In the Brothers Grimms’ telling of “Cinderella,” what are the slippers made of: diamond, glass or gold? 16. What spice is said to taste like a combination of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg? 17. February 9 is National Pizza Day; the World Pizza Championship, which includes Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing, takes place in what country? 18. What is the smallest dog breed? 19. Who said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”? 20. February 10 is World Pulses Day; what are pulses? ANSWERS provides $952.8M for DESE, including $31.1M to scale up proven programs that will develop and expand college and career pathways for more than 17,100 high school students, a $12M increase above FY22 funding Early Education and Childcare $802M for Early Education and Care (EEC), an increase of $273.9M (52%) since FY15. The recommendation includes: • $53.9M to annualize the implementation of a more equitable parent fee scale that improves childcare affordability across the Commonwealth • $9.2M across DTA and EEC that would provide childcare subsidy access for individuals participating in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training programming • $5.5M across DCF and EEC to increase enrollment of DCF-involved children in childcare and expand a temporary childcare program to reach more children and provide additional wraparound services Higher education $1.45 billion for the Department of Higher Education, University of Massachusetts and state universities and community colleges, which includes: • More than $155M in financial aid grants, including $18M to support an expansion of the MASSGrant Plus program that will enable all low-income, in-state undergraduate students to attend public higher education without incurring debt for mandatory tuition and mandatory fees • $22M in financial aid for Massachusetts students attending private institutions • $8.8M for foster care financial aid and fee waiver programs to maintain support for more than 1,400 students attending private and public campuses who are currently or were previously in DCF custody and care, or who have been adopted through DCF Housing and homelessness $716.5M for the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), a $132.4M (23 percent) increase above FY22, including: • $213.2M for the Emergency Assistance family shelter system • $145.6M for MRVP to support more than 9,000 vouchers in FY23, an increase of 223 percent since FY15 • $85M in funding for Local Housing Authorities • $83.3M, a $25.4M (44 percent) increase above the FY22 GAA, for Homeless Individual Shelters • $80M for RAFT, an increase of $58M (264 percent) above FY22 • $56.9M for HomeBASE Household Assistance, a $30.9M (119 percent) increase above FY22 • $12.5M for the Department of Mental Health (DMH) Rental Subsidy Program, a collaborative program through which DMH provides mental health services and DHCD provides rental assistance • $8.2M for Housing Consumer Education Centers to help renters and homeowners secure and maintain stable housing • $5M to continue an innovative model to create new housing opportunities with wraparound services for chronically homeless individuals Economic development • $10M for a new direct appropriation supporting the Massachusetts Life Your Hometown News Delivered! 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PO Box 490407, Everett, MA 02149 Sciences Center, a quasi-public agency tasked with building the life sciences community in Massachusetts • $7.5M for the Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant program to support development in socially and economically disadvantaged communities • $4M for the Small Business Technical Assistance Grant Program for entrepreneurs and small businesses, especially those owned by women, immigrants, veterans and people of color • $2.5M for Advanced Manufacturing Training Labor and workforce development • $440.1M for workforce development programs and initiatives across a wide range of state agencies, a $191.3M (77 percent) increase since the Administration took office • $16.9M in total funding to continue transforming vocational high schools into Career Technical Institutes running three shifts per day to provide pathways to high-demand vocational trade careers, including plumbing, HVAC, manufacturing and robotics • $16.2M for the YouthWorks Summer Jobs Program to subsidize summer job opportunities and provide soft job skills education for youths • $600,000 for a new appropriation to expand research and analytics capabilities to enhance data-driven workforce development strategies Health and human services • $230M for Chapter 257 human service provider funding under the new rate methodology that better reflects the cost of benchmarking direct care and clinical staff wages • $115M to expand outpatient and urgent behavioral health services • $21M to expand the Medicare Savings Program, reducing out-of-pocket health care spending and drug costs for approximately 34,000 low-income older adults and disabled individuals • $10M in grants to local health departments to support municipalities’ capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic • $671.9M for the Executive Office of Elder Affairs, a $400.1M (147 percent) increase since FY15 • $84.1M to fully fund the Turning 22 program at the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) • $1.191 billion for DCF, an increase of $363.6M (44 percent) since 2015, including $13.4M to support families that are fostering children in DCF care and to encourage recruitment of new foster families • $49.3M for the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea, a $13.2M (37 percent) increase above FY22, which supports the fall 2022 opening of a new 154-bed stateof-the-art Community Living Center. Substance addiction prevention and treatment • $543.8M provided in FY23 across a variety of state agencies, an increase of $424.5M (356 percent) since FY15. Funding includes: • $184.1M for a variety of treatment and prevention services at the DepartPROPOSALS| SEE PAGE 19 1. Heart disease 2. It comes from the Latin prima rosa, which means “first” and “rose.” 3. Eggshells 4. Detachable (which reduced her laundry load and led to Troy becoming “Collar City” as other makers “followed suit”) 5. No 6. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 7. Michael Jordan 8. Poland 9. Laura Ingalls Wilder 10. Antarctica 11. Uriah Heep 12. Western USA 13. Trees 14. Jules Verne 15. Gold 16. Allspice 17. Italy (Parma) 18. Chihuahua 19. Martin Luther King, Jr. 20. Edible seeds of the legume family
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