The candidates will be formally recommended and considered at Wednesday’s School Committee meeting.
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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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REAL School teacher receives $25K Milken award
“Kid Whisperer” Richard Meserve is honored for his low-key, flexible and personalized teaching style.
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Former Portland legislator wants another try
The District 114 incumbent, Democrat Peter Stuckey, faces a primary challenge from George Vincent Jr.
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House primary election in Portland features clash of beliefs
Kenneth Capron says he has concerns about Islam. Badr Sharif says Capron doesn’t understand it.
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Taking the money: Seven schools bite the bullet and make a move to improve
Districts submitting aggressive three-year plans will share $9 million of the federal windfall.
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‘A real kick in the face’
For Lake Region High School in Naples and its beleaguered principal, making ‘the list’ of the state’s persistently lowest-performing schools was the worst kind of news. Then came the soul-searching, the promise of more funds, and something perhaps less expected: hope.
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Whole Foods hosts food drive for Wayside
Shoppers’ donations will benefit food programs throughout southern Maine.
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Incident spurs call for school use review
A city School Committee member says she’s ‘appalled’ at how GOP guests treated a classroom.
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Fulbright Scholar from Kenya to teach at UNE
Helida Oyieke will lecture on tropical marine plant communities and women in the African environment.
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USM professor named Fulbright Scholar
Richard Maiman will teach law students about human rights at the University of Pretoria in the Republic of South Africa.