The $1 million gift from aerospace company Pratt & Whitney will fund a machine tool suite in a new engineering center.
education
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Zero-tolerance drug policies marginalize at-risk students even more
Intervene and support struggling students – don’t put in place rules that push them out the door.
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Posted inNation & World
Talks stalled, striking Chicago teachers plan to up the ante
The district has estimated all of teachers’ demands would add $2.5 billion to the annual budget and officials call say it’s unaffordable.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, Schools and Education
Winthrop High School student charged after threatening social media post
Winthrop interim Superintendent Cornelia Brown said the student threatened to “harm students” at the high school early Thursday morning.
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Maine Voices: Cape Elizabeth teenagers’ experience shows dwindling tolerance for silence
Suspended and shamed for her words in 1997, a Portland graduate lauds current Cape students who are advocating for their right to speak up.
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Maine Voices: Education key to meeting workforce needs
Programs like Bridge Academy help students acquire the credentials the job market requires.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Like an astronaut, a mother looks back in wonder
A child overcoming his challenges represents one giant step for a young man.
Posted inBusiness
Free financial education conference offered at USM
The conference on Oct. 19 is designed to help Mainers deal with common personal finance issues.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Yarmouth middle schoolers send peace cranes around the world
YARMOUTH — Students at Frank Harrison Middle School recently folded more than 400 origami cranes, wrote messages of peace and friendship on them, and then sent them around the world. The hope, according to Merry Stuhr, the school’s librarian, is that the Yarmouth students will receive hundreds of similar paper cranes in return. The project […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: School resource officers are not just cops
As researchers have recommended, Maine should standardize the way it trains and supervises the ever-expanding duties of school-based police officers.