The Alfond Grant Program has awarded a $500 grant to every child born in Maine since 2013 and now, those recipients are eligible for new scholarships from 2 Maine institutions.
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Group appeals Maine’s decision to give education contracts to AI-powered firm
A New York company plans to replace human workers with AI agents to train Maine’s early childhood educators.
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Gorham middle schoolers are leading an Anne Frank history exhibit
A group of 20 students serves as docents for the exhibit, which comes from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
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Maine DHHS awards child development grant to out-of-state, private equity-backed firm
Maine Roads to Quality, affiliated with the University of Southern Maine, is at risk of closing after a state contract it’s had for decades is given to a private company from New York that plans to embrace AI in its work.
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Portland’s Lincoln Middle School needs $20M in immediate repairs, per facilities report
As Portland Public Schools contends with low enrollment and utilization at its three middle schools, an external facilities study showed significantly worse conditions at the Deering Center school.
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What to know about Biddeford’s newly opened elementary school expansion
Students from grades pre-K through second now learn under a single roof at the expanded Biddeford Primary School.
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UMaine board votes to rename George Mitchell Center
The former Democratic senator’s name is also being removed from a scholarship after a task force recommended rebranding all campus institutions affiliated with Mitchell, who is referenced hundreds of times in documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Students learn music from a Grammy winner in Cumberland-area school district
Monte Selby, former principal of Greely Middle School 6-8 in the MSAD 51 school district, now teaches music and songwriting to elementary students.
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How a 1-in-100-million lobster is helping UNE students study genes
Casper, a ‘ghost’ lobster, will be studied for personality traits and what makes him white. He joins a growing rainbow of rare lobsters being studied at the Biddeford university.
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Maine ‘Jeopardy!’ champ on the show’s magic, and the question she should have gotten right
UMaine alum and former Bangor Daily News reporter Emily Burnham won the trivia game show Wednesday night.