Schools and Education
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
Inflation, state funding cut put pressure on Portland schools budget for 2024
Maintaining current staffing levels and resources while accounting for inflation, wage increases and a $2.4 million decrease in state funding would cost an additional $10.4 million above the current budget, officials said during a preliminary budget meeting Monday.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
Maine HRC finds USM discriminated against transgender student seeking health care
The University of Maine System will enter a 90-day conciliation process following the commission's vote.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2023
School until late June or thousands of dollars in unbudgeted expenses?
Districts, including those based in Augusta, Gardiner and Winthrop, are no longer reimbursed for providing students meals on remote learning days, complicating efforts to reschedule missed hours of instruction.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2023
$4 million gift to South Portland High will benefit graduating seniors
Every student who graduates will receive a cash award, starting with the Class of 2023.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2023
Lewiston students push officials to improve bathroom access in high school
Students are asking administrators to open four locked restrooms and make repairs to other restroom facilities.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2023
IRS fined Portland schools more than $1 million in past 4 years
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Access Act request show that the district struggled to manage its finances for years before its payroll system broke down last fall.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2023
The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school
Hundreds of thousands of students who have dropped off public school rolls since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are unaccounted for.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2023
Over 100 Lewiston students could be barred from school without required vaccinations
The 2019 law requires students to be vaccinated against infectious diseases like whooping cough, tetanus, measles, mumps and chickenpox.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2023
Richmond must drastically increase short-term school budget and hire administrators as soon as possible, consultant says
“The financial consequences of not being ready are far more serious than the fact you might be short," consultant Jack Turcott told the committee overseeing the town's transition out of Regional School Unit 2.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2023
Maine community colleges stop requiring COVID-19 vaccine
The system president says high vaccination rates in the state and improved outcomes for people who contract COVID-19 played a role in the decision.
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