Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2010
Readfield teacher wins $25,000 Milken award
Education Commissioner Angela Faherty presents the unrestricted prize to Kristie Clark, a 20-year teaching veteran.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2010
Portland High dance draws crowd despite grinding ban
The senior class and student council sold 497 tickets to the annual event, which usually attracts 325 to 350 students.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2010
Forum focus: Should noncitizens be allowed to vote in city elections?
PORTLAND – A proposal on the city’s ballot to give noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections was the focus of a student-moderated forum Wednesday at Portland High School. The forum, hosted by Antoinette Skillings’ law and public policy class, included residents on both sides of the issue, advocates for immigrants and city officials […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2010
Grinding ban has students griping
Portland’s rule, which affects Saturday’s homecoming dance, mirrors steps taken in other districts.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2010
Discipline in Schools: Technology tests academic honesty
It used to be that cheating was a simple matter of copying someone else’s homework, letting your eyes wander during a test or turning in a friend’s term paper as your own.
Now, smart phones and other information technologies are so prevalent in students’ lives that it’s tougher to tell when they’re cheating.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2010
Growth erases need to redistrict Portland elementary schools
Officials say student rolls are balanced and will stay that way even after a new facility opens.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2010
New USM scholarship to target community college transfers
The program is partly funded by the Hoff Family Foundation, started by a longtime summer resident of York Beach.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2010
Fund will help to get eyeglasses to students
But the special fund is only a short-term fix to a lack of state money for MaineCare patients.
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PublishedOctober 17, 2010
School leaders look to recruit China students
Four administrators will head to China on Friday on a nine-day recruiting and cultural mission.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2010
Restraint review committee will convene in November
Maine’s Department of Education finally sets a date.
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