The vote Wednesday came amid an effort to recall 3 board members and vocal support for high school Principal David Creech, who has resigned.
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Windham schools closed Friday as police investigate bomb threat
The threat was found written on a bathroom wall Thursday afternoon.
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Portland couple contribute $15,000 toward fund to benefit Reiche students
The Annetta Weatherhead Fund established by Catherine and Todd Alexander will be used to provide summer camp scholarships and funding for programs that benefit students with the greatest need.
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Dozens speak out against Portland school budget cuts
Superintendent Xavier Botana outlines $3.8 million in reductions made at the request of the school board’s finance committee.
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Apple releases a new iPad as it refocuses on education
The device will compete with Google’s low-cost Chromebooks and comes with a pencil accessory.
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Bus driver fired for racist and sexist comments wins school board seat
Just weeks after being terminated by Regional School Unit 16, Mike Downing ran as a write-in candidate on the March 2 ballot and won an open board seat with 31 votes.
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Maine public will get a say on dropping proficiency-based graduation standards
Lawmakers decide that public testimony is needed on a proposal that would repeal one of Gov. Paul LePage’s signature education initiatives.
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Scarborough board, faced with opposition, approves revised school start times
The board responded to mounting objections to a pending plan that would have allowed high school students to start later but required younger students to start earlier.
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UMaine Farmington president to leave June 30 after 6 years at school
Kathryn Foster has accepted an appointment to serve as the next president of The College of New Jersey, college officials said.
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University of Michigan may drop former UMaine president’s name from campus building
Clarence Little, who critics say lent his expertise to groups favoring eugenics, also has a building named after him at the University of Maine, where he was president in the 1920s.