The rise is tied to families coming from Portland’s family shelter to live in the Maine Motel temporarily.
Schools and Education
News about schools and education from the Portland Press Herald.
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Some question need for breakfast in the classroom
They say it cuts into class time, while others resent the implication that their kids go to school hungry.
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Posted inNation & World, Schools and Education
Common Core opt-out gaining strength
With 113 standardized tests on average per student career, many say testing has gone too far.
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Ken Kunin looks forward to return to state as South Portland superintendent
A former principal at two Portland schools and researcher at the University of Southern Maine, Kunin is leaving a post in Italy.
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Central Maine school committee told ‘Indian mascots are wrong’
Tribal representatives present a case against Skowhegan schools keeping their Indian mascot.
Posted inFood, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Maine finding the recipe for healthier school lunches
The ingredients are incentives, ideas and collaboration, say officials with a program that has helped the state perform far above the national average.
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Dan Lambert: ‘You’ve just got to have a plan’
It started with a scholarship and the kernel of a plan. Dan Lambert had already been studying machining for two years as a high school student at the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology, and as a graduating senior faced a crossroads about what to do next. He knew he wanted an engineering degree. The question […]
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Lahana Palencia: Choosing SMCC ‘was definitely a financial decision’
Lahana Palencia was like many graduating high school students: planning to go to college, not sure what she wanted to study and scared of racking up a lot of student debt while she figured it all out. “I graduated from (Pittsfield) high school an honors student. But I was like, I don’t know what I […]
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More students using community college to save money on a four-year college education
Wary of debt, students pursuing higher education turn to one option that can be practically free, where they can learn a technical trade or use the school as a steppingstone on the path to a four-year degree.
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Breeanna Zoidis: ‘I preach to people: … Start at a community college.’
When Breeanna Zoidis of Casco headed off to college, she wanted to get out of Maine. So she enrolled at Elmira College in New York, where tuition, room and board are more than $51,000 a year. Even with a scholarship, two years there put her $40,000 in debt. Today, the older and wiser 24-year-old Zoidis […]