Many were resistant to the policy when the district considered it last spring but said this week that the rollout has gone better than expected.
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Staff Writer
Riley covers education for the Press Herald. Before moving to Portland, she spent two years in Kenai, Alaska, reporting on local government, schools and natural resources for the public radio station KDLL as part of the Report for America program. Riley originally hails from Sarasota, Florida, and is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the college’s student newspaper, The Campus. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press, and at the Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Magazine in Washington, D.C. Outside of work, Riley is passionate about roller skating, cooking and her cat, Edgar.
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Staff of Maine’s community college system criticize new software program as ‘deeply flawed’
System leadership acknowledged the rollout has been difficult but are confident it will succeed, while staff worry about morale, reputational damage and failed rollouts of the product elsewhere.
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Car drives into and through Brunswick tennis club
Police reported only minor injuries after a Jeep Cherokee crashed through an exterior wall and drove about 200 feet through an open racket center.
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Nurses prepared to strike at 2 Aroostook County hospitals
Nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent and Houlton Regional Hospital are working without a contract and say concerns about staffing, recruitment, pay and safety have not been addressed in negotiations.
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Jetport receives $11 million in FAA infrastructure grants
The funding will cover five new passenger jet bridges and snow removal equipment, and is part of a grant package approved by the Portland City Council in January.
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Portland’s pandemic babies start kindergarten focused on friends, monkey bars
The city’s youngest students began their academic journeys at 8 elementary schools Wednesday, which also marked the start of a new early literacy-focused ed tech program in the district’s Title I schools.
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Maine colleges mostly unaffected by decline in international students
The state has bucked a national trend that has seen a 30% drop in enrollment by foreign students in the wake of Trump administration immigration and education policies.
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Enrollment up across Maine’s public university, community college systems
While the overall number of students has increased slightly, enrollment at individual schools varies. Some have seen major growth since last year, while others have declined.
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Portland considers new attendance boundaries for elementary and middle schools
They haven’t changed since the mid-2000s, but population shifts have occurred, resulting in an uneven balance of enrollment and demographics across Portland’s K-8 schools.
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What Portland families need to know about the new school year
The 2025-26 school year begins this week. Changes include 2 new school holidays and a cellphone ban.