Teachers school Kentucky lawmakers on budget
FRANKFORT, Ky. — With chants of hundreds of teachers ringing in their ears, Kentucky lawmakers voted Friday to override the Republican governor’s veto of a two-year state budget that increases public...
View ArticleCrackdown on off-campus parties pleases neighbors, frustrates Bates students
LEWISTON — A few weeks ago, police officers responded to a house party at Main Street and Mountain Avenue near Bates College. A neighbor reported that during the commotion of the party, a student had...
View ArticleSecond jobs are the new norm for teachers
OKLAHOMA CITY — Hundreds of thousands of American schoolteachers work second jobs to boost their income. They speak of missing time with family, struggles to complete lesson plans and nagging doubts...
View ArticleUMaine system’s internet service returns to normal after computer glitch
The University of Maine System experienced a computer hardware glitch that affected web-based services at all seven university campuses, including Orono and Portland, on Wednesday, but systems were...
View ArticleColby graduate donates $2.5 million for financial aid to Maine students
WATERVILLE — A graduate of Colby College has given the school $2.5 million, which will be dedicated entirely to financial aid for Maine students. In a news release from Colby, the college announced...
View ArticleBowdoin is Maine’s latest carbon-neutral campus, joining Colby, College of...
Bowdoin College announced Thursday it is now carbon neutral, two years ahead of schedule. The milestone means the Brunswick campus’ net impact on carbon dioxide emissions is calculated to be zero, the...
View ArticleAlumnus gives Colby College $2.5 million to aid Maine students
WATERVILLE — A graduate of Colby College has given the school $2.5 million, which will be dedicated entirely to financial aid for Maine students. In a news release from Colby, the college announced...
View ArticleArizona teachers will walk off job to protest salaries, funding
PHOENIX — The latest stop in the national movement seeking higher teacher pay and better education funding is Arizona, where tens of thousands of teachers have voted to walk off the job next week. They...
View ArticleStudents protest gun violence across U.S.
Students calling for an end to gun violence walked out of school Friday, the 19th anniversary of the school shooting in Columbine, Colorado, an event that marked the start of an era of deadly school...
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Scarborough schools shaken by an administrative cage fight
SCARBOROUGH — The turmoil erupted in February, when the well-liked high school principal suddenly resigned, then claimed he had been coerced by the superintendent and decided to fight for his job....
View ArticleLawmakers didn’t fund Maine schools before adjournment last week
State lawmakers didn’t finish their homework before being dismissed when the legislative session ended last week. The sudden late-night stalemate over adjournment left dozens of bills in limbo,...
View ArticleMaine students to be required to get meningitis vaccine
Maine middle and high school students will have to be vaccinated for meningitis starting in the 2018-19 school year. The new rule will apply to students entering seventh grade and 12th grade, for whom...
View ArticleWaterville schools superintendent makes case for social workers, psychiatric...
WATERVILLE — When Eric Haley came to Waterville in 1985, there was one nurse for all the schools, there were no social workers or school resource officers on staff and the idea of hiring a psychiatrist...
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After hours of debate, Scarborough councilors schedule school board recall...
A public meeting Wednesday about the effort to unseat three Scarborough school board members reflected a bitter divide in town that has been deepening for weeks. After entering its sixth hour of...
View ArticleThousands of teachers in Arizona, Colorado walkout in protest
PHOENIX – A wave of red-clad teachers will crash upon the Arizona state Capitol on Thursday for an unprecedented walkout that closed most of the state’s public school schools, part of an educator...
View ArticleFinance committee members say Portland school budget is still too high
Two members of the City Council’s finance committee said Thursday that the Portland school budget is still too high, urging the school board to provide more detailed information on programming and...
View ArticleSchool bus backs up onto car in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — Just before 8 a.m. on Friday, a school bus backed over a car behind it after the bus driver saw children arriving late at the stop. According to a press release from Franklin County...
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Feature obituary: Sandra Featherman, visionary former UNE president, dies at 84
Former University of New England President Sandra Featherman, who oversaw UNE’s merger with Westbrook College in 1996 to create its Portland campus, died Thursday, three months after being diagnosed...
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Arizona schools to remain closed as teachers demand more education funding
PHOENIX — Arizona teachers’ walkout over pay and education funding appears headed into a second week as major school districts say schools will remain closed Monday. The unprecedented statewide job...
View ArticleCape council rules on conflict of interest question regarding education spending
CAPE ELIZABETH — A divided Town Council has decided to allow Councilor Chris Straw to take part in school budget discussions despite questions about the potential for bias because his wife serves on...
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