Schools and Education
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PublishedOctober 26, 2022
UNE receives $300,000 to support scholarships for public health program
The donation is from the Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2022
With construction nearing an end, $18 million downtown Waterville art center to debut Dec. 17
The Paul J. Schupf Art Center is scheduled to open about a week before Christmas and one Colby College official said Tuesday that it's "going to bring people into the heart of downtown all the time."
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PublishedOctober 25, 2022
St. Louis school gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo
Orlando Harris, who was killed by police, left behind a hand-written note offering his explanation for the shooting Monday at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
Schools got $122 billion to reopen last year. Most has not been used.
School systems throughout the country reported using less than 15% of the latest round of federal education funding allotted to them during the last school year.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
Companies lure hourly workers with college tuition perks
Walmart, Amazon and Chipotle have made free higher education accessible for to more than 3 million U.S. workers, but critics question whether the move is glossing over deeper issues.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
UNE team gets $6.6 million grant to explore eye pain, potential treatments
With the National Eye Institute award, a University of New England scientist will look at how eye damage takes its physical and emotional toll.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
Maine students’ math and reading scores plummet during pandemic
The first comprehensive look at how the nation's students are faring after two years of pandemic learning shows decades of academic progress erased – in Maine and nationwide.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
Student test scores fall coast to coast, especially in math, under pandemic’s toll
Declines were seen among high- and lower-performing students alike, for both fourth- and eighth-graders in math and reading.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2022
Student loan relief to move ahead despite hold, education secretary says
The six Republican-led states – Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina – have argued that the debt relief would lead to a drop in revenue stemming from the loans that were set to be forgiven.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Appeals court temporarily halts Biden’s student loan forgiveness program
It’s unclear what the decision means for the 22 million borrowers who already applied for the relief.
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