A resolution, passed by a committee Monday and to be taken up by the full school board in March, is meant to address declining enrollment, financial pressures and underutilization in Maine’s largest district.
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It’s been 25 years since Maine passed a Wabanaki studies law. It’s only partly working.
Three generations of Penobscot advocates are fighting to ensure students in Maine are taught about Indigenous tribes.
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Four takeaways from Portland’s school budget forum
Superintendent Ryan Scallon starts the Fiscal Year 2027 budget season with a public forum Tuesday night.
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Thousands of Maine kids missed school as ICE carried out heightened operations
Absence rates for multilingual students were near or over 50% in some school districts where immigration enforcement spiked, and educators describe empty classrooms and fearful students.
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Gov. Mills is calling for a bell-to-bell school cellphone ban. What does that mean?
Maine would join more than 20 states that ban cellphones for the entire school day. Several districts have already adopted their own policies, but statewide mandates of any kind often meet resistance.
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Maine schools react to increased ICE enforcement
Thousands of students have been absent as a federal immigration enforcement operation descended on Maine, and the state’s largest district is considering a remote learning plans for different grade levels.
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ICE confirms operations in Maine as arrests ramp up
Many city and school officials and residents continued to decry the immigration enforcement actions in Portland, Lewiston and elsewhere in the state.
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Rumors of ICE presence increase anxiety at Portland schools
School leaders confirmed that a number of students stayed home from school Monday, while other families mobilized to protect students arriving to and leaving school.
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Portland schools chair focuses on equity, academic achievements in city address
In her State of the Schools speech before the City Council, Sarah Lentz emphasized the district’s commitments to its values during uncertain times in public education.
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How Portland is getting chronically absent students back in the classroom
Maine’s largest district is tackling chronic absenteeism with school-wide initiatives aimed at making attendance fun.