Schools and Education
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PublishedApril 28, 2015
UMaine System considers seeking one, systemwide accreditation
A single accreditation could help the system as it implements multi-campus degree programs or shifts to a unified budget process.
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PublishedApril 23, 2015
Well-Ogunquit schools superintendent to leave post
Ellen Schneider is leaving to be closer to her family in northern Maine.
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PublishedApril 20, 2015
South Portland hit by spike in homeless students
The rise is tied to families coming from Portland's family shelter to live in the Maine Motel temporarily.
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PublishedApril 19, 2015
Some question need for breakfast in the classroom
They say it cuts into class time, while others resent the implication that their kids go to school hungry.
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PublishedApril 18, 2015
Common Core opt-out gaining strength
With 113 standardized tests on average per student career, many say testing has gone too far.
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PublishedApril 16, 2015
Ken Kunin looks forward to return to state as South Portland superintendent
A former principal at two Portland schools and researcher at the University of Southern Maine, Kunin is leaving a post in Italy.
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PublishedApril 13, 2015
Central Maine school committee told ‘Indian mascots are wrong’
Tribal representatives present a case against Skowhegan schools keeping their Indian mascot.
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PublishedApril 13, 2015
Maine finding the recipe for healthier school lunches
The ingredients are incentives, ideas and collaboration, say officials with a program that has helped the state perform far above the national average.
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PublishedApril 12, 2015
Breeanna Zoidis: ‘I preach to people: … Start at a community college.’
When Breeanna Zoidis of Casco headed off to college, she wanted to get out of Maine. So she enrolled at Elmira College in New York, where tuition, room and board are more than $51,000 a year. Even with a scholarship, two years there put her $40,000 in debt. Today, the older and wiser 24-year-old Zoidis […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2015
Dan Lambert: ‘You’ve just got to have a plan’
It started with a scholarship and the kernel of a plan. Dan Lambert had already been studying machining for two years as a high school student at the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology, and as a graduating senior faced a crossroads about what to do next. He knew he wanted an engineering degree. The question […]
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