UMaine wants to lure people back to school to finish college degrees
The University of Maine System is offering new financial incentives it hopes will attract some of the more than 280,000 Maine residents with partially completed degrees.
View ArticleMore schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
While surveys show parents approve overall, support wanes among those with younger children.
View ArticleLewiston superintendent: Longley School vandalism expected to cost $40,000
Superintendent Jake Langlais said seven juveniles, all related, were seen on video.
View ArticleUMaine Augusta and Maine Department of Labor to launch cybersecurity...
Maine would need to increase its number of cybersecurity professionals by 63% just to fill the number of current open positions.
View ArticleColleges should step up diversity efforts after affirmative action ruling,...
The Education Department issued a report Thursday promoting strategies to increase diversity in the wake of a Supreme Court decision barring colleges from considering the race of applicants in the...
View Article804,000 long-term borrowers see student loans forgiven before payments resume
Student loan payments start up again for most borrowers in October, but more than 800,000 people who have been paying for years are having their loans forgiven.
View ArticleBorrowers reassess their budgets as student loan payments resume after...
Not yet clear is how millions of people suddenly having less discretionary income might affect the economy.
View ArticleRecord number of students flock to programs at Central Maine Community College
CMCC has increased its early fall enrollment this year by 26% compared to last year, according to data on Maine’s Community Colleges website.
View ArticleChild care providers close doors, reduce capacity as federal funds run out
In Maine and across the nation, the end of pandemic-related federal support is causing another round of closures and downsizing in the struggling industry.
View ArticleThe U.S. is forgiving more federal student loans that are ‘unsustainable debt’
In total, 3.6 million borrowers will have had $127 billion in debt wiped out since Biden took office.
View ArticleShooting erupted during dispute at a Baltimore university, but victims were...
The shooting happened at Morgan State University as students were headed to a homecoming week campus ball.
View ArticleBike-to-school movement is rolling again in Portland and elsewhere
Students in communities around Maine and the nation are commuting to school by bike again, some in large caravans with parents coming along for the ride.
View ArticleSouth Portland High staff are frustrated with information flow after student...
After a student was arrested in April and accused of threatening the school, a lockdown last month reignited some teachers' frustration with how little they know about his arrest.
View ArticleFree speech or uncivil discourse? Maine association advises tamping down on...
The Maine School Management Association has suggested schools adopt policies that prohibit offensive speech and complaints against specific staff or students at board meetings, but First Amendment...
View ArticleHow school boards statewide were pushed to allow the public to speak
A recent state law requires that public comments on education matters be allowed at school board meetings, even as a new effort is underway to restrict such commenting.
View ArticleUMaine developing interactive PFAS tracking tool
Associate professor Torsten Hahmann is leading a team creating a national tracker that will strive to connect state and federal testing data back to the likely source of contamination, note the...
View ArticleSouth Portland schools chief addresses security concerns
While Superintendent Tim Matheney lays out the steps that led to a Sept. 29 lockdown at the high school, the school board urges him to work on improving communications between administrators, police,...
View ArticleACT test scores for US students drop to new 30-year low
The average scores in reading, science and math all were below benchmarks the ACT says students must reach to have a high probability of success in first-year college courses.
View ArticleMaine school districts hit by shortage of school bus drivers
In Westbrook alone, the district is down nearly one-third from full staffing, and three drivers say the situation is unsustainable and unsafe.
View ArticleVeteran Portland educator named Maine Teacher of the Year
Joshua Chard teaches second and third grade at the East End Community School in Portland.
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