The tax credits are meant to advance school choice without directly sending tax dollars to private schools.
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News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Middle school reopens in wake of Saco teacher’s untimely death
Classes had been canceled Tuesday after English teacher Robin Stinson died Monday in a driving accident.
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Committee unanimously approves bill forbidding ‘food shaming’ in Maine schools
The measure, which now goes to the full Legislature, prohibits schools from serving a second-tier meal or stigmatizing students who can’t pay for lunch.
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Proposal to cut costs by reorganizing Portland schools is ‘deeply flawed,’ critics say
About a dozen speakers, many of them teachers, tell a study commission that the changes would be disruptive for students, ignore school culture, and limit academic and extracurricular activities.
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Lawmakers reject bill to require Maine schools to teach cursive
The proposal by Rep. Heidi Sampson, R-Alfred, to require cursive instruction beginning in grade 3 goes down on a 9-0 committee vote.
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Saco community mourns death of devoted middle school teacher
Robin Stinson, 47, died Monday after experiencing a medical problem while driving home on the Maine Turnpike.
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Fourth-graders make their case for which chickadee should be the state bird
A presentation will be made Wednesday to ask the Legislature to distinquish if the boreal chickadee of black-capped chickadee is the state bird.
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More than 200 turn out for meeting on racism complaint in Kennebunk schools
The Regional School Unit 21 board votes to take two steps in response to a race-based retaliation complaint filed by a black teacher.
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Gorham mourns Wayne ‘Pooch’ Drown, town’s first school resource officer
The Gorham native had worked in various public safety jobs since becoming a volunteer firefighter in 1974.
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Visitors defend ‘Indians’ nickname in Skowhegan
Four speakers meet with mostly supporters of keeping Skowhegan high school sports teams the ‘Indians.’