Forum focus: Should noncitizens be allowed to vote in city elections?

PORTLAND – A proposal on the city’s ballot to give noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections was the focus of a student-moderated forum Wednesday at Portland High School. The forum, hosted by Antoinette Skillings’ law and public policy class, included residents on both sides of the issue, advocates for immigrants and city officials […]

Grinding ban has students griping

Portland’s rule, which affects Saturday’s homecoming dance, mirrors steps taken in other districts.

Discipline in Schools: Technology tests academic honesty

It used to be that cheating was a simple matter of copying someone else’s homework, letting your eyes wander during a test or turning in a friend’s term paper as your own.

Now, smart phones and other information technologies are so prevalent in students’ lives that it’s tougher to tell when they’re cheating.

Growth erases need to redistrict Portland elementary schools

Officials say student rolls are balanced and will stay that way even after a new facility opens.

New USM scholarship to target community college transfers

The program is partly funded by the Hoff Family Foundation, started by a longtime summer resident of York Beach.

Fund will help to get eyeglasses to students

But the special fund is only a short-term fix to a lack of state money for MaineCare patients.

School leaders look to recruit China students

Four administrators will head to China on Friday on a nine-day recruiting and cultural mission.

Restraint review committee will convene in November

Maine’s Department of Education finally sets a date.

Kittery bridge project to get $20M in federal funds

The aging bridge links the downtowns of Kittery and Portsmouth and offers the only bicycle and pedestrian access across the river.

Fryeburg to remember grad who left school $15 million

Bion Cram enjoyed making money and generally hated spending it, except when it came to the schools that gave him the foundation to become a wealthy investment banker.

This afternoon, Fryeburg Academy will hold a memorial service for Cram, who left $15 million to the town academy when he died in 2008. He gave $13.5 million to his other alma mater, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he graduated in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.