After community opposition to an approved budget that called for eliminating 4 teaching positions, the school board moved Tuesday to open discussions with the teachers’ union.
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USM plans for equity training, scholarships in response to Floyd death
The university will be expanding racial equity training to include campus police and prioritizing scholarship funding for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Portland schools prepare for year’s end with plan to address learning gaps
The last two weeks of the school year will look different for Portland Public Schools as the district shifts its focus to students who have fallen behind or need more support.
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Biddeford school buses hit the road to bring ice cream to students: See the photos
Hundreds of ice cream cones were handed out across the city Wednesday.
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Yarmouth High School custodian diagnosed with COVID-19
The school department says the worker is quarantining at home and is not believed to have had contact with the public.
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Portland school board approves $119.9 million budget, with work to come on cuts
The board directed the superintendent to work with unions to find $400,000 in cuts from cost-of-living increases or other line items.
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DeVos defends policy boosting virus aid for private schools
The policy will steer tens of millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief to private primary schools and secondary schools across the nation.
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Maine high schools get creative to salvage graduations
Unable to host traditional ceremonies because of the pandemic, schools opt for drive-in ceremonies, video productions and small gatherings to honor the Class of 2020.
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Portland schools eye cuts to meet financial stresses of pandemic
The district is looking to renegotiate cost-of-living increases for staff in order to trim the budget, with a backup plan to cut from athletics and co-curricular activities.
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Fifty years later, Colby College’s Class of 1970 recounts disruption to semester’s end
As the coronavirus pandemic has forced changes to Colby’s final weeks of classes and traditional commencement ceremonies, members of the class of 1970 recall how protests and tension that year also disrupted the end of the semester even as their own 50th reunion is now canceled.