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Schools and Education

Published
February 16, 2017

Lawmaker’s lecture on ‘immigration crisis’ goes on at USM as 200 protest

Rep. Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, speaks to a deeply divided audience to back a state immigration bill he is sponsoring.
Published
February 16, 2017

Casco Bay High School teacher inspired by Ellen DeGeneres appears on her show

Former Sudanese refugee Ekhlas Ahmed is surprised to go on stage with the TV star and receive a $22,000 check to pay off her student loan debt.
Published
February 16, 2017

Winthrop council expresses ‘no confidence’ in schools chief Rosenthal

But school board members continue to back the embattled superintendent, saying he has improved test scores and saved money.
Published
February 16, 2017

Baxter Academy seeking to move to Portland’s Bayside neighborhood

The growing charter school has filed a site plan for a two-story building on Lancaster Street.
Published
February 15, 2017

Legislator wants lead tests for drinking water at all Maine public schools

Even the buildings and day care facilities with municipal supplies would have to do checks at the tap and make the results public through the state.

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Published
February 14, 2017

Maine students’ joy over snow days could turn to gloom in June

Most school districts already have had four or five cancellations, and more storms could push classroom time deeper into summer.
Published
February 13, 2017

Dartmouth student’s yoga program holds promise in study of brain injury

A Ph.D. degree candidate is researching how the discipline can help patients cope with mental and physical trauma.
Published
February 12, 2017

For rural Maine towns, Trump administration’s school-choice focus could be ‘catastrophic’

East Millinocket, like many isolated towns, sees little help, and perhaps harm, from new priorities at the top.
Published
February 11, 2017

Black Lives Matter members have no plans to protest USM talk

A controversial Maine lawmaker is scheduled to speak Thursday on the Portland campus.
Published
February 11, 2017

Yale to rename college honoring John C. Calhoun over slavery view

The university makes a final decision in the controversy that has simmered on the Ivy League campus for years.