Earlier this week, the Office of the Maine Attorney General conceded that up to 3,014 signatures backing a referendum on trans participation in school sports might be invalid.
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District talks shift toward building new Harpswell Community School
3 of SAD 75’s 5 elementary schools are at least 70 years old, including the one in Harpswell.
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Bethel student launches Girls in Science Day for Maine middle schoolers
Hands-on labs, mentorship and a student-led vision drew 40 girls to the inaugural program at Gould Academy in Bethel.
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More Maine high schoolers are looking to Canada for college
Amid increased political pressures on American higher education, and the rising cost of college, some Maine students are heading across the border.
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UNE receives $5M gift for public and environmental health institute
The donation from the founder of IDEXX Laboratories will support the new David Evans Shaw Institute of Public and Planetary Health.
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Suit against trans sports referendum dealt potential blow by Maine officials
The attorney general’s office says the number of faulty signatures submitted in support of the referendum doesn’t appear to be enough to invalidate it. But questions remain.
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‘Real experience’: 7 Gould Academy students win NASA rover challenge
‘You’re not going to get this by sitting in a classroom’: The student-led engineering group earned the top prize and multiple honors in global competition.
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Skillin principal is Maine Association of School Libraries’ administrator of the year
Bethany Connolly, who received the award for her steadfast support of the South Portland school’s library programs, has been its principal for nine years.
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Portland middle school students walk out in protest of teacher’s nonrenewal
Lyman Moore social studies teacher Josephine Tibbetts believes she was retaliated against when administrators declined to renew her teaching contract this week.
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Why Scarborough is set to lose $1 million in state education funding
Maine lawmakers passed a bill overhauling the state’s public school funding formula.