Knox and Franklin counties have been added to the state’s list of places where hybrid instruction is recommended, while Waldo County has returned to green but is being closely watched.
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Portland schools will stop asking families to verify daily COVID symptom checks
Only 50 to 60% of students were verifying that they’d completed the checks, making additional work for school nurses and staff, the district says.
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Ninety-one Portland students, staff in quarantine, as district reports 5th new coronavirus case
Portland Public Schools will post weekly COVID report cards to keep the public updated on cases going forward.
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Colleges to ramp up virus testing before Thanksgiving
Dispersing all of those students poses a risk: They might unwittingly infect family, friends and others at home if they happen to be carrying the virus.
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Remote housing creates issues for remote learning in central Maine
Many families are unable to get internet at their houses because of the remote nature of where they live.
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56 students, staff members quarantining after probable positive case of COVID-19 at Canaan Elementary School
Under the direction of the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, the two classrooms will be quarantined, with 47 students and nine staff members sent home.
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Sanford superintendent says flu vaccine provider failed to check for parents’ signature
Matt Nelson says three students got shots without their parents’ consent because the provider didn’t notice that the permission forms hadn’t been signed or the signature had been crossed out.
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Maine Arts Academy students display their talents at outdoor, walk-through recital
Students at the Sidney school for the arts perform for family and friends, despite cold weather Friday morning, during a walk-through recital in what some call a return to normalcy.
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Three Maine counties now designated ‘yellow’ in school reopening system
Somerset, Waldo and Washington counties are now designated as “yellow” in the state’s school re-opening advisory system.
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Federal court upholds Maine law barring public funding for religious high schools
The plaintiffs charge that Maine’s tuition statute is unfair to students who attend such schools, and plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.