Database: statewide standardized test results, 2018
Look up your local schools' standardized test results in the 2017-18 school year.
View ArticleAugusta school board to consider noting religious holidays on school calendar
The main goal is not to add days off, but to help officials and teachers avoid holding special events such as field trips on days when students may be absent for observances.
View ArticleAugusta school board rejects adding religious holidays to calendar
Despite community support for the proposed new policy, school board members said educators already work to accommodate students and the calendar is already full of events.
View ArticleDeVos proposes new campus sexual assault rules
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hails the proposed regulation as balancing rights of victims, accused.
View ArticleMessalonskee athletic complex nears completion
With or without its final red track coating, the $3.9 million facility will be ready for the spring sports season, officials say.
View ArticleMichael Bloomberg donating $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University
The gift – the largest ever to any education institution in the U.S. – will allow his alma mater to eliminate student loans in financial aid packages starting next fall.
View ArticleEducation Department probes claims of anti-male bias in women’s studies programs
More than half-a-dozen U.S. colleges are the targets of complaints that men are being treated unfairly.
View ArticleSisters taking up Indian mascot issue with Skowhegan school board
The current policy of the school board is to offer no comment and direct media questions on the topic to Superintendent Brent Colbry.
View ArticleUniversity system captures extra $15 million, reports $8.2 million surplus...
The extra funds are attributed to better-than-expected investment income, cost-cutting and an increase in tuition revenue from out-of-state students.
View ArticleUMaine System forms committee to search for new Farmington president
The board of trustees hopes to announce its selection by early June.
View ArticleSMCC opening welding program in Brunswick
New equipment will help train students for potential jobs at Bath Iron Works.
View ArticleRetired Portland teacher gave UMF its second-biggest donation ever
T. Maragaret Brown, who lived in Westbrook and taught home economics at Portland High School and King Middle School, left the school more than $700,000 when she died in May.
View ArticleProfessor, UNE reach settlement in sexual harassment lawsuit
Lara Carlson had said department chairman Paul Visich retaliated after she accused him of making inappropriate comments, sending inappropriate emails and touching her inappropriately in 2012.
View ArticleMIT’s ‘Star Trek’-inspired plane flies silently, runs on electricity
The prototype could portend a future where airplanes fly without moving parts like turbines or propellers.
View ArticleRSU 38 voters will weigh in on $5.8 million bond issue
Superintendent James Charette says the reception to the measure has been positive.
View ArticleWinslow and Waterville schools to introduce anonymous threat-reporting system
The around-the-clock app, website and hotline service, called Say Something, could be implemented at area schools by June. The system was developed by families of victims of the 2012 mass shooting at...
View ArticleLunder Foundation’s $3 million gift to MECA will increase financial aid
Most of the money will go toward relieving the burden of student debt, while some will be used on the college's strategic plan.
View ArticleSouth Portland middle school project needs zoning change
Parts of the proposed building would be four stories tall, exceeding the 35-foot limit in the surrounding Thornton Heights residential neighborhood.
View ArticleSchool district’s snow-day alternative draws interest
Lewiston and Auburn officials want to see how well Camden-Rockport's remote school day plan works.
View ArticleScarborough sees chance to refocus with superintendent stepping down
Julie Kukenberger, who was involved in several months of controversy, says she will continue to lead the school district and help the board prepare for her departure next summer.
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