Ex-Miss America squares off with state senator
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A former Miss America says that while an Arkansas politician is criticizing a public university that put up a billboard touting its dance program, society needs both entertainers...
View ArticleHelp for Puerto Rican college students worries islanders
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — It sounded like a scam. Three weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Brown University was offering to pick up 40 of the island’s top students in a private jet and shuttle...
View ArticleHarvard University names 29th president
BOSTON — Harvard University has named Lawrence Bacow its 29th president. Bacow served as president of Tufts University for a decade and is currently a leader-in-residence at the Harvard Kennedy School...
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Work on front lines of immigration deeply moves UMaine law students
When Joann Bautista listened to the stories of undocumented women in a Texas detention center, she couldn’t help but think of her mom. Decades ago, her mother fled her native Mexico for the United...
View ArticleBill, Melinda Gates turn attention to poverty and education in America
KIRKLAND, Wash. — Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world’s top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the...
View ArticleEighth-grader at Portland’s Lyman Moore Middle School wins Cumberland County...
CAPE ELIZABETH — Sam Scala of Portland won the Cumberland County Spelling Bee in Cape Elizabeth Tuesday night. An eighth-grader at Lyman Moore Middle School, Scala spelled perfectly for 26 rounds...
View ArticleBrunswick school officials regret screening ‘inappropriate’ Disney film about...
BRUNSWICK — Several parents confronted the School Board on Wednesday evening about a film shown in a Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School music class earlier this year. The 1991 Disney Channel TV...
View ArticleMaine schools prepare for the worst, but that’s no guarantee of safety
In the state’s newest high school, now going up in Sanford, the hallways don’t offer any place for a shooter to hide. Classroom doors lock from the inside. And when the school opens later this year,...
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For Maine high school students, news of shootings now normal but anxiety arises
Portland High School seniors Madeline Pettingill, left, and Molly Bowden. Staff photo by Brianna Soukup By early Thursday, most students at Portland High School were talking about the school shooting...
View ArticleUniversity of Maine names four finalists for president
The four finalists for president of the University of Maine will make campus visits beginning later this month. The candidates were selected from a pool of 67 applicants in a national search that began...
View ArticleTopsham deals with two school threats in one day
TOPSHAM — No sooner had Topsham Police Chief Christopher Lewis and MSAD 75 Superintendent Brad Smith cleared Mt. Ararat High School of possible threats Friday morning than another threat came in. The...
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Scarborough High principal resigns suddenly amid controversy
Scarborough High School Principal David Creech submitted his resignation suddenly and without giving a public reason on Friday amid an intensifying community dispute over new school start times that...
View ArticleScarborough High’s principal stays silent on reason for sudden resignation
Scarborough High School Principal David Creech declined to respond Monday to questions about why he suddenly submitted a letter of resignation last week amid growing controversy over a pending change...
View ArticleBates takes No. 1 spot for Fulbright recipients
LEWISTON — With 23 Fulbright Student award recipients this year, Bates College has produced more than any other liberal arts college. And despite Bates’ relative smallness, about 1,800 students, only...
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The good and bad of social media use among student-athletes
Sean Whalen tweets. He’ll tweet about the sports he plays or the New England Patriots or TV shows; and when he’s done, the Madison Area Memorial High School senior and basketball player hops on...
View ArticleColby College hires head of state police as new security director
WATERVILLE — Following an extensive nationwide search, Colby College has announced it is hiring the head of Maine State Police to take over as its director of security. Maine State Police Chief Robert...
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Maine students joining national walkout after Florida shootings
Suzanne Hanvey may be “just” a freshman, but she isn’t waiting around for adults to figure out what to do in the wake of Florida’s deadly school shooting. She and students attending at least five Maine...
View ArticleColby museum receives gift of German Expressionist art
Although she is closely associated with one of the great modern artists in American and Maine art history, Norma Boom Marin has always collected art based on her own personal tastes and likes. Marin,...
View ArticleLawmakers offer no clarity on Maine’s new graduation guidelines
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers are requiring high school students, starting with this year’s freshmen class, to prove they truly understand the subjects they study before they can graduate, but the Legislature...
View ArticleEducation secretary DeVos backs school choice for military children
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday backed a proposal to allow military families to use $1.3 billion in public funds to send their children to private school or pay for other...
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