To get more data, the finance committee delays its vote on the $92.8 million spending plan by a week.
Kelley Bouchard
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Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, 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, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Parents, students protest transfer of PHS principal
Superintendent Jim Morse declines to address claims that the reassignment is due to test scores and graduation rates.
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Committee vote on city school budget expected tonight
But the Portland school board’s finance panel still wants more details before endorsing a proposal.
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Student texting elicits :-(
What teachers see as distraction from learning, kids see as multitasking
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14 top community college students to be honored
Members of 2011 All-Maine Academic Team will receive $500 scholarships.
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Brunswick Catholic school principal wins award
Andree Tostevin, principal of St. John’s Catholic School, is one of 12 administrators nationwide who will be honored by the National Catholic Educational Association.
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43 take Portland schools’ incentive to retire
The workers, mostly teachers, are among more than 200 school employees eligible to retire this school year.
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Portland adult ed cutbacks opposed at hearing
Speakers describe how they were helped by the program and say the changes would weaken it.
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Egyptian human rights activist to speak at USM
A longtime opponent of the Mubarak regime, Nawal El Saadawi has been censored, imprisoned and threatened with death.
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Comedian Bob Marley to perform at S.P. High
Fundraiser will benefit Project Graduation for class of 2011.