The city needs 10 additional staff to run the after-school portion of the Before & After the Bell program, which is scheduled to start Sept. 6.
Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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U.S. cancels $3.9 billion in ITT Tech students’ loan debt
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says the for-profit college ‘misled students about the quality of their programs.’
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Portland may limit high school choice to balance enrollments
A proposed hybrid system to be presented Tuesday would allow students to choose a school as usual, but administrators could reassign some of them if needed to balance enrollments.
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Maine school districts scramble to hire up for the school year
Schools around the country are struggling to fill vacancies, and Maine schools are having mixed success.
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Dixfield-based school board bans gender book from Dirigo library
RSU 56 directors voted 7-2 to remove “Gender Queer: A Memoir” from the high school shelves.
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‘I didn’t really learn anything’: COVID grads face college
After the disruption of online learning, first-year college students are arriving on U.S. campuses unprepared for the demands of college-level work, experts say.
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Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges join effort to uphold affirmative action
Bates, Bowdoin and Colby are among 32 liberal arts colleges urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold previous rulings which allow admission officers to consider race as a factor.
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Making room to grow, Thomas College nears completion of new athletic center
The 18,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open in the fall, is being built alongside the college’s two turf fields, with a design “that totally stands on its own within the state,” athletic director Christopher Parsons says.
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Portland schools suspended Black students at a higher rate than white students in 2021-22
The district has released data showing how middle and high school suspension rates have changed over the past few years and which groups of students are most impacted by the discipline.
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Portland superintendent’s early departure adds to district staffing challenges
Xavier Botana announced Tuesday night that he will leave his post in June. He had previously planned to leave after the 2023-24 school year.