Schools and Education
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PublishedDecember 11, 2018
Alfond Foundation’s $3.6 million grant to community colleges boosts workforce development
The grant will help expand short-term training programs to ease labor shortages in health care, information technology and other industries.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2018
Computer coding as child’s play at Saturday festival in Augusta
Maine Digital Festival seeks to interest, educate students in computer science and programming.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2018
ACLU Maine can’t intervene in lawsuit over religious-school tuition, judge rules
The case challenges a state law that bars taxpayers' money from being used to pay for students to attend religious schools.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2018
Gov.-elect Mills weighs in on Skowhegan schools’ Indians nickname
Janet Mills urges the school board in a letter to consider Native Americans, who find the nickname 'a source of pain and anguish.'
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PublishedDecember 5, 2018
Scarborough Middle School gets STEM grant from pharmaceutical group
Biddeford Middle School and Windham High School also will receive grants to support science, technology, engineering and math programs.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2018
ACLU urges Skowhegan-area schools to retire Indians mascot
A letter urging the school district to ‘do the right thing’ was sent to superintendent and board Chairwoman Dixie Ring.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2018
South Portland assistant principal wins state recognition
Kimberlee Bennett has been named the 2019 Assistant Principal of the Year for grades 9-12 by the Maine Principals' Association.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2018
In a first, charter school teachers go on strike over pay, class size
More than 500 teachers and staff members at 15 schools in Chicago operated by a nonprofit walk out of the classroom after not reaching a new contract.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2018
Portland’s Bayside school displaced by water main break
Bayside Learning Community, which serves about 36 students, will temporarily relocate.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2018
South Portland inaugurates newly elected councilors, school board members
Incoming Mayor Claude Morgan invites residents to reach out to older neighbors and make 2019 the 'Year of the Senior Citizen in South Portland.'
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