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Schools and Education

Published
April 10, 2021

Maine teachers use lessons learned during pandemic to reimagine education

A federal grant is providing a venue for hundreds of educators to take courses on innovation and pilot design with the chance to get funding for remote learning projects in their schools.
Published
April 9, 2021

Lincoln Middle School and Reiche go remote Friday

The building closures are due to staff quarantines for COVID-19 and other absences at Lincoln and a plumbing issue at Reiche.
Published
April 8, 2021

Gorham High senior to represent Maine in national poetry competition

Emily Paruk will compete in the semifinals May 2 and hopes to advance to the finals May 27, when she would earn a shot at winning a $20,000 cash prize.
Published
April 8, 2021

Bates extends lockdown two more days to stop COVID-19 spread

Students will have been kept mostly in their rooms for at least 12 days. to fight against 'relatively large outbreak.'
Published
April 8, 2021

Deering High senior wins at state science fair, gets top national scholarship

Linh Nguyen won for her research on finding an inexpensive way to remove arsenic from drinking water systems.

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Published
April 7, 2021

Student seeking refund for canceled study-abroad program takes case to appeals court

A Harvard College student who was sent home from Europe when the pandemic hit is arguing that she and other students should get refunds from the Portland-based Council on International Education Exchange.
Published
April 7, 2021

Son of former Richmond police chief told student with loaded gun to tell the teacher

Tripp MacMaster, 11, said he learned from his father what to do in a situation similar to the incident at Richmond's Marcia Buker Elementary School on Tuesday.
Published
April 7, 2021

Maine schools to fund summer programs, safe reopenings with federal relief money

School districts must spend at least 20% of their allocations to address learning loss, and some superintendents say they are also looking at summer programming and additional staffing.
Published
April 6, 2021

Number of COVID-19 cases at Bates College keeps rising

Bates College has 77 COVID-19 cases among students and two-thirds of its isolation housing is full.
Published
April 6, 2021

Education Department reviewing campus sexual assault rules

Then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos narrowed the definition of sexual harassment and limited colleges’ authority to investigate claims arising beyond campus.