Mold discovered at second Portland elementary school
In the midst a political campaign over whether to use local bonds to pay for elementary school renovations, mold has been discovered at a second aging elementary school, district officials said...
View ArticleDeVos puts school choice at the top of new set of education priorities
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos put forth a new set of priorities Thursday for states, schools and universities competing for federal grant money. The priorities include school choice,...
View ArticleMt. Blue High School gets preliminary OK to partner with Chinese school
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 has received word that the Chinese government has approved a partnership to offer a dual diploma program to students attending Beijing No. 2 Middle School in China....
View ArticleDescendants of woman misused by doctors speak at USM on medical ethics
Decades after doctors took Henrietta Lacks’ cancer cells without her knowledge, her heirs urged today’s nursing students to behave ethically in their work. “You have to talk to people in a way they...
View ArticleVermont town weighs turning high school into agricultural magnet school
CABOT, Vt. — A Vermont school board said it could save a small high school facing declining enrollment by converting it into an agricultural magnet academy that would attract out-of-state students. The...
View ArticlePerkins Loan Program expires despite attempts to save it
A federal loan program that serves hundreds of thousands of needy students expired Sept. 30 despite attempts from lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, to extend it. About 700,000 students...
View ArticleUSM builds an all-faiths place to pray on Portland campus
The University of Southern Maine is building a new prayer room at its Portland campus to better serve Muslim students, as well as students of other faiths. The room is part of a $100,000 project that...
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Long-debated Portland issue coming to vote: Pay to fix two elementary...
Portland voters face dueling elementary school renovation bond measures on the Nov. 7 ballot, one for a four-school $64 million bond backed by a majority of the school board and City Council, and the...
View ArticlePortland school bond Q and A
Q: How much would the $64 million bond to fix all four schools cost taxpayers? A: Borrowed in stages over the next six years, the bond would result in $91 million in debt after interest. Property taxes...
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Drums, whoops and war paint: Team spirit, or racial mockery?
The mother of a Micmac Indian who plays football for Lisbon High School says Wells fans and players mocked Native Americans with offensive stereotypes throughout Friday’s game at Wells High School....
View ArticleAs social trends ebbed and flowed, Farmingdale teacher steadfast over 51-year...
FARMINGDALE — Phyllis McDonough finally got the teaching job she applied for more than 50 years ago. McDonough is in her 51st year of teaching, and after 42 years teaching language arts at Hall-Dale...
View ArticleStudents from across Maine take part in science day in Augusta
AUGUSTA — Nicholas Overton and Luke Doscinski said they enjoyed the GPS scavenger hunt, while classmates Nicholas Rackliff and Levi Austin liked the typography display. Their teacher, Katie Perry, said...
View ArticleUNE receives $1.3 million to develop seaweed technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the University of New England a three-year, $1.3 million research grant to develop new technologies for seaweed production. The grant is part of a new DOE...
View ArticleProtester at UMaine serenaded with a love song
A man protesting gay rights at the University of Maine’s Orono campus was met with a song Monday. Carrying a sign with a Bible verse from Galatians – which warns, in part, against sexual immorality,...
View ArticlePortrait showing Bonny Eagle senior with his gun won’t be in high school...
Bonny Eagle High School has refused to publish a senior yearbook photo because it shows the student holding a shotgun. “So here’s what I wanted to have as my senior picture but was informed, ‘No you...
View ArticleNeo-Nazi Spencer drowned out by protests
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Counter demonstrators greatly outnumbered white nationalist Richard Spencer’s supporters Thursday at the University of Florida, their chants drowning out Spencer during his speech....
View ArticleEducation committee endorses board members for Maine Maritime, UMaine system
Lawmakers on the education committee unanimously endorsed outgoing State Board of Education representative and former Charter School Committee member Ande Smith for the board of Maine Maritime Academy....
View ArticleColby College launches $750 million campaign
WATERVILLE — Colby College launched a $750 million fundraising campaign Friday night and announced it has already raised more than $380 million toward that goal. More than 800 Colby trustees, alumni,...
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District was asked not to hire Gray-New Gloucester football coach who urged...
GRAY — Duane Greaton was hired as Gray-New Gloucester High School’s football coach despite the objections of a parent who said he had an abusive style and a warning from the school’s previous coach...
View ArticleColby College students, staff collect household waste in Waterville
WATERVILLE — The so-called “Colby Bubble” popped years ago. On Saturday, students and Colby College faculty volunteers made sure it stayed popped with a massive cleanup of Waterville’s gritty South End...
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