After complaint filed against Portland schools, advocate points to value of...
A national conservative group filed a civil rights complaint against the district over a group for staff members of color.
View ArticleMajor teacher exodus weighing down recovery of state, local jobs in U.S.
According to Teryn Zmuda, chief economist at the National Association of Counties, higher-paying is especially vulnerable because teachers have left the industry for higher paying private sector jobs.
View ArticleRichmond transition committee hitting roadblocks from RSU 2 central office
The Richmond Transition Committee has not gotten documents it needs in order to move forward with the town's separation from the Hallowell-based school district.
View ArticlePortland school district tackles ongoing bus driver shortage
The district is consolidating routes, contracting with outside vendors and offering hiring bonuses and training as well as considering changing school bell schedules to spread out its limited resources.
View ArticleArts charter school eyes move to bigger campus in Augusta after outgrowing...
The Maine Arts Academy purchased the former Maine Veteran's Home property for $3.25 million.
View ArticleMaine College of Art & Design hires new exhibitions director
Iris Williamson will oversee short- and long-term exhibitions at the college's Institute for Contemporary Art and serve as a resource for hundreds of students.
View ArticleBacklash grows against Florida Gov. DeSantis decision to block AP African...
The DeSantis administration said a pilot AP course on Black history would not be approved because it violated state law and 'lacks educational value.'
View ArticleActor Tony Shalhoub announces donations to USM arts center, credits college...
Shalhoub, who graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1977, was at the Portland school Thursday, where he was named honorary chairman of the fundraising drive and pledged $150,000 of his own...
View ArticleTurner-based MSAD 52 votes to keep ‘Gender Queer’ in high school library
A controversial book about gender and sexual identity will remain available to students at Leavitt Area High School after a 5-3 vote by the Maine School Administrative District 52 Board of Directors.
View ArticleCavalier attitudes about vaping, marijuana raise fears about teen health
Smoking and drinking have declined among Maine youths in recent years, but the percentage of high schoolers who said they vaped in the past 30 days rose from 16.8% in 2015 to 30.2% in 2019.
View ArticleUMaine Orono dips into reserves amid declining enrollment
The UMaine System board allows the state's flagship university to pull $5.7 million from savings to help close a $17 million budget gap.
View ArticleBill would extend eligibility for special education services
Some school districts, however, balk at cost and opponents question whether the public school system is the right place to best serve this population up to age 22.
View ArticleDeSantis aims to cut college diversity efforts; New College ousts president
The Florida governor, who has been waging a culture war across the state, says he wants to see diversity, equity and inclusion programs to 'wither on the vine.'
View ArticleBlack history class revised by College Board after criticism
The course is currently being tested at 60 schools around the U.S., and the official materials are intended to guide its expansion to hundreds of additional high schools in the next academic year.
View ArticleLawmaker proposes allowing armed teachers in Maine schools
A Republican lawmaker has sponsored a bill that would allow a school employee who completes certification to have a gun on school property.
View ArticleCollege Board faces storm of criticism over AP African American studies
The College Board and several professors who worked on the Advanced Placement course said it was all strictly a matter of pedagogy, not politics, with one going so far as to say, 'This was pure...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Agriculture proposes new rules limiting sugar in school meals
The goal is to improve nutrition and align with U.S. dietary guidelines in the program that serves breakfast to more than 15 million children and lunch to nearly 30 million children.
View ArticleSix candidates vie for spots on inaugural Richmond school board
The special election will be held on March 7.
View ArticleIn gender clash, Maine schools caught between parents, kids
The handling of gender identity at public schools has emerged as a new front in the culture war, pitting children's privacy against some parents who fear educators are cutting them out of key...
View ArticleAs teacher departures rise in Maine, solutions could be a year or more away
Maine lacks teacher vacancy tracking mechanism, making it difficult to see which districts need the most help.
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