The student, who is now an adult, allegedly suffered a concussion and bite marks during an altercation with a classmate.
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Some Maine schools have unsafe radon levels. Most haven’t been tested.
Just 12% of Maine’s school buildings were tested in the past 5 years, and nearly a quarter of them had elevated levels of the cancer-causing gas.
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Water damage shuts down Poland Community School for third day
The school has been closed since Monday as crews work to repair the building, according to Regional School Unit 16 officials.
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Maine school buses may soon change after deaths of 2 students
Maine lawmakers heard testimony Thursday on a proposal to require and fund crossing arms on all school buses.
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Gorham school leader named Superintendent of the Year
Educators salute Superintendent Heather Perry.
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Chellie Pingree, Jared Golden join House Democrats’ call for release of withheld education funds
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing $7 billion in federal school funding, including $26 million for Maine, which 150 House Democrats decried as illegal in a Thursday letter to the Department of Education.
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Maine’s most expensive state-funded school is being built in Windham. Here’s what’s behind it.
Maine communities are grappling with the hefty cost of replacing or maintaining aging schools, but only a slim fraction get state assistance.
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School leaders want more options to restrain students with violent behavior
District leaders are concerned about increasing behavioral issues in schools just a few years after the state raised the threshold to physically restrain or seclude students.
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Single-occupancy bathrooms have multiplied in Maine. What a relief.
Since the last big debate about trans rights, private, gender-neutral bathrooms have proliferated at restaurants, schools and workplaces.
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10 Scarborough students taken to hospital after feeling ill at Wentworth School
Fire Chief Rich Kindelan said none of the illnesses was serious and no gases or other issues were detected inside the school.