Schools and Education
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2023
Westbrook High placed in lockout after student brings unloaded gun to school
A 14-year-old student was taken into custody Thursday and charged with theft of a firearm and terrorizing.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2023
School districts grapple with vaping in high schools
Some are considering installing vape detectors in restrooms, but there is no easy solution for what some educators consider a public health crisis.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2023
Heat-related school closures prompt Winthrop family to donate 14 air conditioners
The donation provides each classroom at Winthrop Grade School with an air conditioner.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2023
UMaine System hopes to invest $1.2 billion in 400 projects over the next 5 years
Saying an investment in the schools' infrastructure is overdue, leaders of the system and the individual universities laid out capital plans for the next 5 years at a board of trustees meeting Monday.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2023
UNE students hunt for ways to develop shark deterrent for fishermen
They are studying how low-level electrical impulses might be used to repel sharks from stealing the catch of commercial and recreational fishermen.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2023
‘Everyone is in shock and mourning all the lost ones,’ U.S. students at UNE campus in Morocco say
Jack Hooker and Amaya West, students at UNE's Morocco campus, recount the last few days in Tangier. Since the quake hit, an atmosphere of shock and sadness has fallen over the city, they say.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2023
Black history is ‘being attacked.’ These parents found alternatives.
After Florida began changing its teaching standards on Black history, Kristin Fulwylie Thomas, a former political organizer, quit her job and decided to work full time on a nonprofit she had founded in 2015, the Black History Project.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2023
UNE president says school’s Morocco campus not impacted by deadly earthquake
James Herbert said he was devastated to learn about Friday night's earthquake but grateful that the Tangier campus was not affected.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2023
Bates College ranked among least economically diverse elite universities in U.S.
A New York Times analysis of 286 elite colleges and universities found that the Lewiston school has one of the lowest percentages of the low-income students who qualify for Pell Grants. Bowdoin and Colby colleges also have below-average economic diversity, according to the research.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Staffing shortages spotlight critical role and special skills of school bus drivers
For Portland students heading back to Lyman Moore Middle School and Ocean Avenue Elementary School on Wednesday, it was exciting to be back on Ms. Lisa's bus.
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