High schoolers to compete on locally produced TV quiz show
Maine’s high schools are competing head-to-head over a red buzzer now, instead of on the football field. A new academic “High School Quiz Show,” produced by Maine Public, airs Thursday. “Come on down!”...
View ArticleOfficials back $80 million campaign to revamp USM’s Portland campus
University of Maine System officials approved an $80 million capital campaign Thursday aimed at a radical re-imagining of the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. “I think you have...
View ArticleSen. Collins increases pressure on U.S. Education Department over application...
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine led a group of 23 senators Friday in urging U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to reconsider the rejection of dozens of grant applications to the federal Upward Bound...
View ArticleWrestlers help save program in SAD 11 budget
GARDINER — For more than a half-hour, students hoping to wrestle at Gardiner Area High School made their case Thursday to the school district’s finance committee. Alone, or standing with a parent or...
View ArticleBrunswick case highlights national problem of school sexual assaults
BRUNSWICK — Chaz Wing was 12 when they cornered him in the school bathroom. The students who tormented him were children, too, entering the age of pimples and cracking voices. Eventually, he swore...
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Bill to force public colleges to allow guns on campus draws opposition at...
A bill that would force Maine’s public colleges to allow carrying of concealed weapons on campuses faced significant opposition at a public hearing Monday. “Our students feel safe on our campus,” said...
View ArticleChocolate milk, white bread could make school lunch comeback
WASHINGTON — Chocolate milk is coming back on the school lunch menu. So are white bread and saltier food. Several paragraphs tucked into a massive 1,665-page government spending bill released Monday...
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Hyde School plans to expand in Bath, grow enrollment
Hyde School officials announced an expansion of their Bath school on Tuesday, fueled by the $14.25 million sale of their Connecticut school to another private institution. “With the coming together of...
View ArticleBrunswick superintendent calls story about school sexual assaults ‘disturbing’
Brunswick school officials responded Tuesday to an Associated Press story on sexual assault and bullying in K-12 schools that included an interview with a former student at Brunswick Junior High School...
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At schools in Maine and beyond, ‘Hamilton’ becomes a class act
Gorham Middle School seventh-grader Gavin Lavoie performs a rap song that he wrote as part of a social studies lesson that used the hit Broadway show “Hamilton: An American Musical.” Staff photo by...
View ArticleOfficials break ground on $25.5 million Colby College residential-retail complex
WATERVILLE — The ceremonial shovels hit the dirt Wednesday as officials launched construction of a $25.5 million Colby College residential complex downtown that will house about 200 students and...
View ArticleBill would set Maine teacher salaries at minimum of $40,000
A bill to raise the minimum teacher salary in Maine to $40,000 a year was before lawmakers on Wednesday, more than a decade after lawmakers set the last minimum salary at $30,000 a year. “If we want to...
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U.S. colleges try to reassure foreign students, as applications decline
On a trip to India, the president of Portland State University in Oregon reassured prospective students they’d be safe on his campus. Purdue University sent overseas applicants a note from two mayors...
View ArticleAstronaut from Maine leaves crowd of York County schoolkids seeing stars
KENNEBUNK — It might have been her fascination with nature. Or maybe it was the way the stars looked from northern Maine. Jessica Meir doesn’t remember exactly what prompted her, at age 5, to start...
View ArticleFrustrated over budget crisis, Winslow officials ask residents to call Augusta
WINSLOW — The school administration gave a presentation Thursday evening about what it calls a crisis budget situation and the increased needs straining the system to an audience of about 50 at the...
View ArticleEnrollment deposits by first-time students up 34% at USM
The number of first-time students putting down deposits to attend the University of Southern Maine this fall is up 34 percent over last year at this time, signaling a turnaround for a campus that has...
View Article’13 Reasons Why’ stirs debate in Maine schools on issues surrounding suicide
South Portland High School senior Julia Stanton has watched the wildly popular but controversial Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” mostly out of curiosity. “I wanted to understand the strong reactions of...
View ArticleEighteen Penn State students face charges in hazing case
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Eighteen Pennsylvania State University students and their fraternity were charged Friday in one of the largest hazing prosecutions in the nation’s history, sending a chill through the...
View ArticleAbout 350 UMA grads expected at Saturday ceremony
James Conneely will deliver his second and final commencement remarks as president Saturday during the University of Maine at Augusta’s 49th graduation ceremony. Conneely resigned unexpectedly last...
View ArticleSpare a dime? Puerto Rico seeks change to aid university
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The budget problems at Puerto Rico’s largest public university are so bad that the U.S. territory will soon ask people for spare change to support it. Gov. Ricardo Rossello...
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