Chef Heidi Parent strives to be innovative with her culinary arts program, including using COVID-19 pandemic relief funding to buy a food trailer for her students to run.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Wales-based district passes school budget
Slight reduction in proposed spending plan leaves all but one article intact.
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New Sharon school hires principal from Vassalboro school
Carol Kiesman, who serves as director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at Vassalboro Community School, was offered the position of principal at Cape Cod Hill School on Tuesday, May 9.
Posted inCommunity, Local Government, Maine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Voters give preliminary approval to $29.6 million budget for Fairfield-area school district
The 2023-24 budget for Maine School Administrative District 49 now moves to a referendum, scheduled for June 13 for residents of Albion, Benton, Clinton and Fairfield.
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RSU 9 accepts additional gift from Bjorn Foundation
Regional School Unit 9 board of directors voted to approve an additional gift of $240,000 from the Bjorn Foundation to allow them to move forward with the CTE center at Mt. Blue Middle School.
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Farmington senior to study medicine and engineering at UMaine
Emily Hammond is No. 3 in her class at Mt. Blue High School. “Both my mother and brother were 3rd as well. It’s like a weird family coincidence,” she said.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Employees’ frustrations mount over lingering payroll problems in Hallowell-based school district
The head of the school employees’ union said the payroll issues have distracted staff for more than a year and that ‘poor and untimely communication’ by administrators in trying to fix the problems ‘has become unbearable.’
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics, Schools and Education
DeSantis bans diversity, equity and inclusion in Florida colleges
The law also bans courses that include viewpoints with which the governor disagrees, prompting a statewide faculty union to argue that presenting a variety of perspectives is ‘a bedrock of democracy.’
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Thomas College to lease residence hall at Snow Pond Center for Arts in Sidney
With the Waterville college’s dormitories expected to be full this fall, about 28 students will be housed in a residence hall on the Snow Pond Center for the Arts campus on Messalonskee Lake as part of a new partnership.
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Farmington principal shares student scores, teacher appreciation
W.G. Mallett School Principal Tracy Williams shared with Regional School Unit 9 board of directors their standardized test scores in her administrative report, along with teacher appreciation day on Tuesday, May 9