Superintendent’s Notebook: Preserving nature’s future

Phippsburg residents donate to erase student meal debt, but experts say school meals should be free after

Although families can apply for a child to receive free or reduced-priced meals based on a family's income and size, universally free school meals would be academically and financially beneficial.

Superintendent’s Notebook: Freeport-area schools beginning the journey towards diversity, inclusion

Superintendent’s Notebook: Yankee ingenuity

Freeport High School moves to online learning as COVID-19 outbreak continues

Becky Foley, RSU 5 superintendent, said Freeport High School tentatively plans to reopen for in-person learning on Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Superintendent’s Notebook: Fingers crossed

Maine CDC identifies COVID-19 outbreaks at two Bath schools

Fisher-Mitchell School in Bath not resume full in-person instruction for the first time since March as initially planned after the Maine CDC listed the school as an outbreak status, alongside Morse High School, according to a letter from RSU 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel.

Superintendent’s Notebook: School nurses are on the front lines

Freeport area schools decide not to reopen in ‘green,’ hope to bring back K-5 full-time

While the goal since August has been to bring all students back this month, Superintendent Beck Foley said that with the current space constraints of the schools and needing to keep kids at least 3 feet apart, bringing everyone back was not an option. 

Superintendent’s Notebook: Civil discourse