Some are considering installing vape detectors in restrooms, but there is no easy solution for what some educators consider a public health crisis.
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News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Heat-related school closures prompt Winthrop family to donate 14 air conditioners
The donation provides each classroom at Winthrop Grade School with an air conditioner.
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UMaine System hopes to invest $1.2 billion in 400 projects over the next 5 years
Saying an investment in the schools’ infrastructure is overdue, leaders of the system and the individual universities laid out capital plans for the next 5 years at a board of trustees meeting Monday.
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UNE students hunt for ways to develop shark deterrent for fishermen
They are studying how low-level electrical impulses might be used to repel sharks from stealing the catch of commercial and recreational fishermen.
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‘Everyone is in shock and mourning all the lost ones,’ U.S. students at UNE campus in Morocco say
Jack Hooker and Amaya West, students at UNE’s Morocco campus, recount the last few days in Tangier. Since the quake hit, an atmosphere of shock and sadness has fallen over the city, they say.
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Black history is ‘being attacked.’ These parents found alternatives.
After Florida began changing its teaching standards on Black history, Kristin Fulwylie Thomas, a former political organizer, quit her job and decided to work full time on a nonprofit she had founded in 2015, the Black History Project.
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UNE president says school’s Morocco campus not impacted by deadly earthquake
James Herbert said he was devastated to learn about Friday night’s earthquake but grateful that the Tangier campus was not affected.
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Bates College ranked among least economically diverse elite universities in U.S.
A New York Times analysis of 286 elite colleges and universities found that the Lewiston school has one of the lowest percentages of the low-income students who qualify for Pell Grants. Bowdoin and Colby colleges also have below-average economic diversity, according to the research.
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Staffing shortages spotlight critical role and special skills of school bus drivers
For Portland students heading back to Lyman Moore Middle School and Ocean Avenue Elementary School on Wednesday, it was exciting to be back on Ms. Lisa’s bus.
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Colby College professor studying how wildfire smoke fuels climate change
Assistant chemistry professor Greg Drozd says it’s clear there is a feedback loop – climate change leading to more wildfires and wildfires leading to more warming – and is trying to determine the magnitude of the effect.