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Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Three teachers named finalists for Maine Teacher of the Year
The finalists will now have interviews and a school site visit before the teacher of the year is announced.
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UMaine Presque Isle wins grant initially rejected because of line spacing
Sen. Susan Collins praises the Department of Education’s reversal of an ‘absurd bureaucratic decision.’
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Tuition, fees unchanged in Maine Community College System
The system’s president, Derek Langhauser, says the freeze was possible because of an increase in the state appropriation.
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LePage praises vocational training, calls teachers ‘a dime a dozen’
Gov. Paul LePage, speaking at the grand opening for Cianbro’s new workforce training facility in Pittsfield, said a mentor program is more valuable than ‘just teaching out of a book.’
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BJ’s Wholesale fills every Maine teacher’s classroom wish list
The donation of $100,000 will go for 165 classroom projects in K-12 schools across the state.
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New rules for high school proficiency scrutinized at Augusta hearing
Advocates for students with disabilities are concerned the new rules will make it harder for those youths to earn diplomas.
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Settlement near in lawsuit filed over ‘head-bagging’ incidents at Readfield school
The agreement will settle claims of Readfield parents who sued the Maranacook schools and a Readfield teacher over allegations their child was bullied.
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Colby College receives $475,000 from National Science Foundation for research
The research projects include studying methods to produce chemical compounds and investigating environmental changes that caused a mass extinction 252 million years ago.
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Biddeford day camp meets children with autism on their terms
The city, parents and school officials join forces to offer the structure and calmness necessary to helping these youths thrive.