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New Hampshire college luring students from southern Maine with...
A Portsmouth, New Hampshire, community college is recruiting students in southern Maine, offering in-state tuition rates to help fill its composites manufacturing classes with students who have...
View ArticleBest of Maine high school drama emerges
Finalists emerged from a field of 81 high schools in the Maine Drama Festival regional competitions held this weekend. Finalists in the Class A division, which includes high schools with at least 525...
View ArticleLePage offers $7.2 million more for the University of Maine System
Gov. Paul LePage is offering the University of Maine System an additional $7.2 million in funding in exchange for freezing tuition and earmarking some funds for early college programs and scholarships....
View ArticleActing president wins permanent appointment to lead Maine’s community colleges
After serving as acting president for a year, Derek Langhauser was selected Tuesday as the next president of the Maine Community College System. “From the start of his service as interim president, the...
View ArticlePortland schools propose $103.7 million budget, up $1 million from last year
Facing a cut of $2.7 million in state aid, the Portland schools superintendent presented a $103.7 million school budget that would increase the school portion of Portland’s property tax rate by 4.5...
View ArticlePalestinian teacher awarded $1 million Global Teaching Prize
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Palestinian primary school teacher who grew up in a refugee camp won a $1 million prize for teaching excellence Sunday, beating out 8,000 other applicants from around...
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University of Maine Farmington celebrates new biomass facility
FARMINGTON — The Biomass Central Heating Plant opened Sunday on the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington. The official opening of the largest biomass hot water heating plant in Maine...
View ArticleUMaine System keeps tuition in deep freeze
FARMINGTON — Bucking a national trend of increasing college costs, the University of Maine System will keep its in-state tuition flat for a sixth straight year after a vote Monday by the board of...
View ArticleFor Pi Day, Biddeford teacher parodies ‘Thriller’
A Biddeford High School math teacher has continued the tradition of commemorating Pi Day with a musical parody about the irrational number. This year, it’s to the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”...
View ArticleBangor High School senior wins $150,000 in national science talent competition
A Bangor High School senior won $150,000 and a first place Medal of Distinction for Global Good in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search, a national competition. Paige Brown, 17, was one of three...
View ArticleArianna Huffington to speak at Colby College commencement
WATERVILLE — The co-founder of the Huffington Post website will deliver the address at Colby College’s commencement in May, the college announced Wednesday. Arianna Huffington will also be given an...
View ArticleLegislative committee votes to phase in new graduation standards
New graduation standards requiring Maine high school graduates to be proficient in eight content areas are too tough and should be phased in over several years, a legislative committee said Wednesday....
View ArticleHome-schooling community gets ready for 3-day conference
With the number of home-schooled students rising in Maine and nationally, about 800 people are expected to attend an annual three-day Maine home-schooling conference beginning Thursday in Rockport, an...
View ArticleWith spike in applications, University of Maine starts wait list
Aggressive marketing and a novel tuition incentive to attract out-of-state students are paying off for the University of Maine, where a record number of qualified applicants has prompted admissions...
View ArticleDeering athletic director broke policy by using school stationery to praise...
Deering High School officials are tightening the rules governing the use of school stationery after the athletics administrator broke district policy by using school letterhead to write a glowing...
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With ‘unified’ sports teams, everybody wins
LISBON — In terms of basketball, it might have been one of the worst displays of defense. In terms of humanity, it was one of the best. In a playoff game last week, Lisbon High junior Jake Patenaude...
View ArticleCape school board to review ‘weaknesses’ in response to unauthorized visitor
CAPE ELIZABETH — The School Board has scheduled a special workshop Tuesday to discuss the district’s response to a visit from a former student that prompted a lockdown of the three-school campus. The...
View ArticlePanel backs bill that would give Maine residents a break on student loans
Maine students studying science, technology, engineering or mathematics in college would get a break on student loans through a program endorsed 9-3 Tuesday by the Legislature’s Education and Cultural...
View ArticlePortland school board airs $103.6 million budget at public hearing
Only three people spoke at a public hearing Tuesday night on the proposed $103.6 million Portland School District budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. One speaker criticized the district for a...
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