PORTLAND — The city’s first charter school has a new executive director. Kelli Pryor, who was the founding board chairwoman of Baxter Academy, was named executive director last week. She succeeds Carl Stasio, who resigned in March to work more extensively on his accreditation work, according to a press release. As founding chairwoman, Pryor signed […]

PORTLAND — The state’s only single-gender college preparatory high school is changing its name. Catherine McAuley High School is embarking on a formal renaming process, and is seeking input from students, parents, faculty, staff, its board of trustees and alumni. The all-girl school, named after the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, announced last October that […]

PORTLAND — A handful of King Middle School seventh-graders will head to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in May for the National SeaPerch Challenge. Last year, the students at King were asked by the Department of Environmental Protection to build 35 submersible, remotely operated vehicles to investigate invasive aquatic plants. The students spent last fall perfecting the […]