The spending plan, which requires a 5.68% increase in the school portion of the property tax rate, will go to voters on June 9.
Riley Board
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.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News, Schools and Education
8 former Long Creek detainees allege ‘unimaginable abuse’
A 234-page lawsuit, filed Friday, recounts the experiences of former residents who were held at the youth detention center in the 1990s and allege they were physically and sexually abused by staff.
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Twins graduate from UNE medical school before going separate ways
Hafsa and Hammad Sadiq mostly have stuck to the same path, leading them to the stage at Merrill Auditorium on Friday, where they became doctors.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics, Schools and Education
Maine will hold its first-ever citizens’ assembly on education next month. What is it?
University of Southern Maine researcher Jennifer Chace says the initiative will bring together delegates from across the state to define forward-looking priorities for pre K-12 education in Maine.
Posted inCommunity, News, Schools and Education
Without naming her, parents and colleagues call on school board to reinstate Portland teacher
Lyman Moore social studies teacher Josephine Tibbetts believes she was discriminated against when the district declined to renew her contract. The community turned up at a board meeting Tuesday to advocate for her return.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Attorney in Hyde School lawsuit sanctioned for AI misuse, but case will continue
A lawyer for a former student suing the Bath boarding school for abuse and neglect apologized for erroneous citations in a court filing, which she said resulted from the use of an AI chatbot.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Last week’s free speech ruling in Augusta has statewide implications
A conservative activist known as Corn Pop won a legal victory in his First Amendment lawsuit over the Augusta School Board’s comment policies. Here’s what it could mean for the hundreds of other school districts in Maine.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Some Maine schools have unsafe radon levels. Most haven’t been tested.
Just 12% of Maine’s school buildings were tested in the past 5 years, and nearly a quarter of them had elevated levels of the cancer-causing gas.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics, Schools and Education
10 Maine governor candidates talk education at Portland schools forum
The slate of hopefuls from the crowded gubernatorial field took students’ questions about their positions on public education in Maine and their support for the state’s largest, most diverse district.
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Pingree will travel to Texas to visit detained Portland teen
The Democratic congresswoman plans to visit Dilley Immigration Processing Center to see Olivia Andre, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Maine, who has been in federal detention since November.