Shanna Crofton will begin leading the district on July 1.
Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Reconfiguring South Portland’s schools has parents divided
It’s been two weeks since the South Portland School Board voted to close Kaler and reconfigure the remaining elementary schools.
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Portland school board advances $179M budget that would increase tax rate by 5.68%
The budget passed after a series of amendments Tuesday. It now goes to the City Council and then to voters in June.
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Legislature passes first reform of Maine’s school funding formula in 2 decades
Gov. Mills plans to sign the bill — which would change the EPS formula by accounting for local poverty rates in state funding calculations and modernizing outdated regional adjustments — into law.
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Topsham kids will turn US 250th celebrations into a circus
The Woodside One Wheelers, a unicycle group based out of Topsham, will travel to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this summer for a series of performances celebrating America’s birthday.
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Meet the namesake of Cumberland and North Yarmouth’s new school
MSAD 51’s new pre-K through first-grade building will be known as “The Small School,” named after a longtime district educator and historian.
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Maine lawmakers make last-minute changes to school funding formula bill
Following concerns over costs, lawmakers on the education committee supported an amended version of the bill. It now goes to the full Legislature.
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4 things to know about Cape Elizabeth’s school budget
The proposed budget would mean an 8.33% increase to the school’s share of the tax rate.
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Supporters object to trans sports referendum ballot language
The secretary of state released draft language this week for how the initiative, which seeks to limit school sports participation and use of bathrooms and similar spaces to a student’s assigned sex at birth, would appear on the November ballot.
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Biddeford appeals to Maine’s highest court over approval of UNE pier project
The appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court concerns a complaint from the city that was previously dismissed by the York County Superior Court.