Maine’s new virtual charter school sees 25% enrollment drop since opening
AUGUSTA — Maine’s newest charter school, Maine Virtual Academy, has seen 25 percent of its student body withdraw from the school since it opened this fall and continues to have a high number of...
View ArticleGood Will-Hinckley has three finalists for president
Good Will-Hinckley, the organization for at-risk youths at the heart of a legal dispute between Gov. Paul LePage and House Speaker Mark Eves, is in the final stages of selecting its next president,...
View ArticleAuburn to allow medical marijuana in schools
AUBURN — A school committee has approved a policy that would allow students to have medical marijuana administered in school under certain conditions. The Auburn School Committee voted unanimously...
View ArticlePublic hearings to spotlight Maine’s Common Core math and English standards,...
The public will get a chance to weigh in Monday on proposed legislation that would require Maine to drop its existing math and English Common Core standards and come up with new standards, and whether...
View ArticleMaine legislators hear conflicting views on Common Core tests
AUGUSTA — In the midst of anti-testing and anti-Common Core sentiment across the nation, the Legislature’s Education Committee heard testimony Monday on whether Maine should drop the five-year-old...
View ArticleCape Elizabeth superintendent hired by New Hampshire school district
Cape Elizabeth is losing its superintendent to a school district in New Hampshire. Meredith Nadeau will start her new job as superintendent for the Newmarket School District on July 1. The selection of...
View ArticleUMaine Fort Kent names new president
John Short, an administrator at the University of Wisconsin Fond du Lac, is the new president of the University of Maine Fort Kent, university officials announced Thursday. Short, who will be paid...
View ArticleCape Elizabeth school board acts quickly to replace superintendent
The Cape Elizabeth School Board will meet Tuesday to develop a plan to replace Superintendent Meredith Nadeau, who announced this week that she has accepted a superintendent’s position in New...
View ArticleN.H. school allows teachers to waive midterms
BEDFORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire high school is allowing teachers to waive midterm exams for students who are doing well. WMUR-TV reports the school district says its “competency recovery days” allow...
View ArticleAs UMaine System plans new graduate center, location a hot topic
While few details have emerged on a proposed University of Maine System graduate center, questions are already being raised over where it should be located. University of Southern Maine President Glenn...
View ArticlePlan for two-year international high school at USM moves forward
The University of Southern Maine is poised to open a new two-year international high school on campus after a vote Tuesday by a committee of University of Maine System trustees. The Academic and...
View ArticleLegislative panel declines to drop Common Core standards in math, English
AUGUSTA — Maine legislators on the Education Committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have thrown out the state’s math and English Common Core standards. Instead, the committee unanimously...
View ArticleYork County school district names Larry Malone new superintendent
Regional School Unit 57 in York County announced the hiring of a new superintendent Thursday. Larry Malone, who has been the district’s assistant superintendent since last year, was chosen to replace...
View ArticlePrime number sets record at 22.3 million digits
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have discovered a record-setting prime number that’s so large it would take about 6,000 pages of paper to print, the school...
View ArticleBrains vs. blizzards: Harvard students take on snow removal
BOSTON — Winter is bearing down anew, and Harvard University students have been engineering new ways to deal with it. Eighteen juniors representing several engineering disciplines in professor David...
View ArticleRewarding students is just the ticket
TAUNTON, Mass. — In between a poetry lesson on Paul Revere’s ride in Nora Sweeney’s Grade 5 class, the vocabulary and grammar lessons in Lori Nixon’s Grade 6 class and learning about Martin Luther King...
View ArticleTrustees back idea of adding USM’s Muskie School to proposed graduate center
ORONO — The University of Maine System board of trustees endorsed adding the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine to a proposed graduate center that was initially planned...
View ArticleFour Portland schools in dire need of repairs, parents say
A $29.7 million bond to replace the Fred P. Hall Elementary School hasn’t even received a public hearing yet and already there is a movement afoot in Portland to build support for another borrowing...
View ArticleUMaine System trustees approve two-year international high school at USM
ORONO — A new international high school will open at the University of Southern Maine next year, part of an effort to increase revenue while providing English-speaking foreign students with up to two...
View ArticleChrista McAuliffe touches future as her students teach
CONCORD, N.H. — Thirty years after the Concord High School class of ’86 watched social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts perish when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart on live...
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