South Portland plans forum on middle school project
SOUTH PORTLAND — The school department will host a public forum Oct. 5 to update the community on efforts to renovate or replace one or both of the city’s aging middle schools. The meeting will run...
View ArticleSupport for tax to fund education splits along party lines in survey
Despite a strong split in support along party lines, a majority of Mainers favor taxing personal income over $200,000 to pay for education, according to a new Portland Press Herald poll. Overall, 60...
View ArticleMaine Community College System to request 13 percent increase in state funding
SOUTH PORTLAND — The Maine Community College System is seeking a 13 percent increase in state funding, with the bulk of the new money earmarked to expand workforce development programs, officials said...
View ArticleMaine will have 2nd highest top tax rate in U.S. if Question 2 passes
Maine’s top tax rate would become the second-highest in the nation if voters in November approve a ballot measure that would tax the wealthiest Mainers and businesses to increase state education...
View ArticleUSM president discusses fundraising, Portland campus expansion
University of Southern Maine President Glenn Cummings highlighted progress on admissions, a stabilizing budget and plans to expand the school’s Portland campus in his pitch on Tuesday to members of the...
View ArticleGov. LePage to push for consolidation of public school administrations
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that Maine has too many school superintendents and he plans to pressure school districts to consolidate administrations in the two-year state budget he will...
View ArticleChickenpox cases prompt exclusion of 5 unvaccinated students from Yarmouth...
Two children at Rowe School in Yarmouth have been diagnosed with chickenpox in the past two weeks, prompting authorities to temporarily exclude five unvaccinated students from the elementary school....
View ArticleAlternative school’s application still alive after Maine charter commission...
AUGUSTA — An alternative school for pregnant teens and high school dropouts is one step closer to opening as a public charter school in Maine next fall, even though a state education review team...
View ArticleSouth Portland to consider building a consolidated middle school
SOUTH PORTLAND — The school district will consider the possibility of building a new, consolidated middle school to satisfy state officials who want to address major deficiencies at both of the city’s...
View ArticleChicago teachers head toward strike as talks falter
CHICAGO —Teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district prepared to go on strike for the second time since 2012, as contract talks between the Chicago Teachers Union and financially troubled...
View ArticleSkowhegan educator named 2017 Maine Teacher of the Year
SKOWHEGAN — Tammy Ranger, a reading intervention teacher at Skowhegan Area Middle School, is the 2017 Maine Teacher of the Year. In a surprise ceremony Thursday in the gymnasium where she learned of...
View ArticleFired Waterville principal Donald Reiter surrenders teaching certificate
AUGUSTA — Donald J. Reiter, fired last November from his job as principal of Waterville High School after a student accused him of asking her for sex, surrendered his state teaching credentials...
View ArticleAt Southern Maine Community College, serving up a brunch to remember
SOUTH PORTLAND — A group of friends who love to cook took time out Sunday to honor a friend by throwing a fundraising brunch in his memory. They said cooking some of Adrianus Michael “Mike” Kusuma’s...
View ArticleTwo-term Portland School Board member facing challenger
One of the Portland School Board’s longest-serving members is facing a challenger for her District 3 seat this November, while two other people are running unopposed for two at-large seats. Laurie...
View ArticleNational high school graduation rates reach record high
WASHINGTON – High school graduation rates have reached a record high of 83.2 percent, continuing a steady increase that shows improvement across all ethnic groups, the White House said Monday....
View ArticleInteractive map: graduation rates hit record highs
Maine’s 2015 graduation rate – the percentage of high school seniors who graduated in four years – rose to 87.5%, up one percentage point from the graduation rate for the class of 2014. Maine’s...
View ArticleSeven College of the Atlantic students involved in van crash released from...
The College of the Atlantic students were riding in a van that crashed in Thorndike on Sunday. Seven College of the Atlantic students who were taken to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash in...
View ArticleWestbrook School Committee races uncontested
Two incumbents are running unopposed for reelection to the Westbrook School Committee. Noreen Poitras is on the ballot in Ward 3. A West Pleasant Street resident, she has served one term on the School...
View ArticleTwo Maine charter schools get strong support for renewal
HINCKLEY — Dozens of students, parents and other supporters of Maine’s first two charter schools urged state officials Tuesday to renew the charters of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Hinckley...
View ArticleAlternative school drops bid to be new charter school
The leaders of an alternative school for pregnant teens and high school dropouts say they are ending their efforts to become a public charter school in Maine next fall, according to a letter sent to...
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