Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings both issued their first-ever ratings for the Maine-based private university.
Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Charter school hoping to occupy old court building in Skowhegan
The Cornville Regional Charter School aims to be the first pre-K through grade 12 charter school in Maine.
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Marijuana is still illegal, as far as Maine’s colleges and universities are concerned
The schools, like most in states that have legalized recreational pot, feel compelled to follow federal law and not run the risk of losing millions in funding.
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After-school class a hit with Massachusetts middle-schoolers
The students learn to read music, then transcribe it in a computer program.
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Maine Republicans accuse Portland schools chief of politicizing alleged hate crime
The criticism of Superintendent Xavier Botana comes on the day police arrest Jamie Hoffman and charge him with accosting four ninth-graders.
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Rallies planned for 4 Casco Bay High School students who were hate crime targets
The student demonstrations at two other Portland high schools are scheduled for Friday afternoon.
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Portland Adult Education receives $45,000 donation
Bank of America gave the donation, to be disbursed over three years, for the New Mainers Resource Center.
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Interactive map: Compared with other states, charter schools play a tiny role in Maine
Only 12 other states, mostly in the rural west and south, have a lower proportion of students enrolled in charter schools than Maine, according to federal statistics.
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Eighth-grader from Gray wins Cumberland County Spelling Bee
Naomi Zarin of the Friends School of Portland repeats as champion.
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American colleges invested unwisely again last year, annual study shows
In contrast with their 2 percent loss, the S&P 500 index ended 2016 with a 9.5 percent gain.