Lincoln Academy suspends administrator after arrest on drunken-driving charge
Lincoln Academy’s associate head of school has been suspended from work for 12 days after his arrest on drunken-driving and driving to endanger charges Saturday night in Bristol. Andrew Mullin’s...
View ArticleFinance panel backs additional $800,000 in cuts to Portland school budget
Portland’s superintendent has cut another $800,000 from his proposed school budget by trimming sports and supply budgets, eliminating plans for new programs to help raise math scores and assimilate new...
View ArticleAugusta to apply for funds to replace school
AUGUSTA — The Augusta school board voted 5-0 Thursday to apply for state money to replace the Lillian Parks Hussey Elementary School. The school was built in 1954 and is the oldest of the city’s four...
View ArticleCalifornia case begins fight against ‘free speech zones’ on college campuses
Kevin Shaw was handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution to students at Pierce College in Los Angeles when he was stopped by a school official and told that he was only allowed to do so in the...
View ArticleOakland’s McGee named 2017 Principal of the Year by statewide group
OAKLAND — Two Atwood Primary students escorted their principal, Jennifer McGee, into the gymnasium Tuesday morning for a surprise assembly to celebrate her winning the statewide honor of 2017 Principal...
View ArticleMaine Department of Education awards grants to 7 school-based projects
The Maine Department of Education awarded about $3 million in grants Tuesday to seven school-based projects around the state aimed at increasing efficiencies between neighboring school districts. There...
View ArticlePortland school board airs pared-down budget
Only two people spoke at a public hearing Tuesday night for Portland’s pared-down $104.8 million school budget. Resident Steven Scharf urged deeper cuts, while Will Kessler said school officials should...
View ArticleLegislative panel endorses watered-down school start-time bill
The Legislature’s Education Committee endorsed a watered-down bill Wednesday recommending later start times at Maine’s high schools. “This is a huge public health issue,” said Rep. Matthea Daughtry,...
View ArticleMaine bill says home economics classes should be mandatory
Eighth-grader Sam Gerber carefully holds a paring knife to the outside of a red apple, slowly cutting away the skin in small flecks. Beside him, Sabelle Guido waits to chop up the apple, which is...
View ArticleHusson University gets $4 million gift from Harold Alfond Foundation
Husson University announced Friday it has received a $4 million matching gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation, the biggest gift in the private university’s history. The money will go toward...
View ArticleLast year’s report card just now arriving for Maine school districts
Maine parents and school districts are just now getting detailed results on last year’s standardized tests, a delay state education officials attribute to first-year growing pains with a new test. “We...
View ArticleWinthrop school district considers later start time for students
The Winthrop school district has begun considering whether classes should start later than they do now. It’s a question that many school departments across the county have been asking in recent years,...
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College trains Maine students for solar job market that’s hotter elsewhere
Whether it’s a 26,000-panel municipal solar array or just a few panels on the roof of a home, someone has to install solar systems for the lights to come on, and Kennebec Valley Community College in...
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In UNE’s virtual reality lab, medical students can see through aging...
BIDDEFORD — Ryan Hoang sits at a computer, puts on a headset, and in an instant the 23-year-old medical student at the University of New England is transformed into Alfred James, a 74-year-old...
View ArticleCape Elizabeth’s music education program wins national recognition
Cape Elizabeth has been named one of the Best Communities for Music Education in the United States by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation. The Cape Elizabeth School Department is one...
View ArticlePortland school board passes $105 million budget with 7-2 vote
Portland school board members gave lackluster approval Tuesday to a $105 million budget for the coming year, saying it left out about $400,000 in new programs and delayed their first efforts to...
View ArticleUniversity of Maine at Augusta president leaving in June
Less than two years after touting the commitment and stability the hiring of James Conneely would bring to the University of Maine at Augusta, the school again is looking for a president. Conneely, who...
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Wearing defiance – but not on her sleeves – Portland 6th-grader protests...
Posing in the tank top she wore to school Wednesday, Molly Neuner of Portland says she and another girl were singled out earlier in the week for violating King Middle School’s dress code, which Molly...
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For teachers, selling lesson plans online just adds up
Miss Kindergarten is in the million-dollar club. So are Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls and about a dozen other teacher-entrepreneurs who are spinning reading, math, science and social studies into gold...
View ArticleBoothbay student calls water project empowering
The 16-year-old Boothbay high school student whose honors project uncovered high lead levels in the school district’s water said the project has given her a sense of power about bringing about change...
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