Maine home-schooling numbers remain high following pandemic spike
Experts, parents and advocates cite a number of reasons for a dramatic rise of a system that provides an alternative to traditional schooling.
View ArticleDavid Fogle, influential preservationist whose work earned King Charles’...
Fogle, an international authority on historic preservation and urban planning, started a program for University of Maryland students to work on projects around the world, including a 17th-century...
View ArticleFree community college program extended, CMCC predicts another record year
Students who graduate in the Class of 2024 and 2025 are now eligible for the program.
View ArticleBiden administration announces $39 billion in student loan forgiveness
The Education Department said the plan will help more than 800,000 borrowers.
View ArticlePortland schools embracing multilingual education
A third of the district's roughly 6,500 students are multilingual, many with limited English. Preparing educators to confront that shift could benefit everyone.
View ArticleMaine’s most selective colleges say little about their legacy admissions...
Bowdoin, Colby and Bates answered few questions about preference given to applicants related to alumni and donors.
View ArticleUnity Environmental University sees enrollment grow as it continues...
Officials at the university, formerly known as Unity College, said that within a couple of years, they expect to enroll more than 10,000 full-time students.
View ArticleHarry Frankfurt, philosopher of excrement-level falsehoods, dies at 94
Frankfurt, a Princeton University philosopher who wrote primarily on Descartes, free will and moral responsibility, found literary fame with an unexpected bestseller on the pervasive, willful and...
View ArticleTeaching jobs, athletics and more at risk as Gorham voters mull school budget
The proposed $49 million budget would eliminate middle school sports, make high school sports pay-to-play and cut 20 jobs. Other effects might go beyond the classrooms and playing fields.
View ArticleLewiston High School plans to add twice-weekly remediation period
The 38-minute period dubbed Academic Focus Time will give students an opportunity to make up work with classroom teachers.
View ArticleDepartment of Education orders investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions
According to the complaint filed by a Boston civil rights group, children of alumni or donors are about 6 times more likely to be admitted to the school.
View ArticleBiden administration to clear $130 million in debt of CollegeAmerica students
More than 7,000 students who attended the Colorado-based campuses of the for-profit chain between 2006 and 2020 will have their loans canceled.
View ArticleLewiston High School considers installing vape detectors in bathrooms
School officials are discussing different strategies to increase access to bathrooms in the high school.
View ArticleOnce too high, Gorham schools budget now too low as leaders struggle to find...
The $2 million in cuts were too costly for a majority of voters Tuesday, who chose to send the school committee back to find a new budget plan nearly one month into the fiscal year.
View ArticleAfter second budget rejection, Gorham lays off 9 school employees
If a school district doesn't have an approved budget by July 1, Maine law requires the district to keep using the one its budget committee mostly recently approved, even if voters haven't signed off on...
View ArticleAuburn summer program aims to help new Mainers build relationship with the...
Students have practiced outdoor survival skills, like navigation and building fires, in the summer program.
View ArticleSchools lost track of homeless kids during pandemic. Many face steep path to...
Homeless kids often fell through the cracks during the tumult of the COVID pandemic, when many schools struggled to keep track of families with unstable housing.
View ArticleChange is on the horizon as UMaine system struggles financially
The seven-university system is contending with declines in enrollment, state funding that hasn’t kept pace with inflation, and lingering doubts about its chancellor’s leadership.
View ArticleUniversity of Maine chancellor wins back confidence of trustees, but not all...
Some faculty are still not satisfied with Chancellor Dannel Malloy and say his contract renewal process lacked transparency and opportunities for participation.
View ArticlePortland school board meetings resume after a month-long break
The Portland school board has high hopes for the upcoming school year.
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