Superintendent Donna Wolfrom is leaving at the end of the school year to lead the schools in Cape Elizabeth, and the search for her replacement has begun.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Oakland-based RSU 18 discusses next year’s budget
School board also talked about how to fill chief operations officer.
advertisement
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Schools and Education
Lewiston High School student charged after school closed by hoax
The student is accused of posting on social media that a friend would be ‘shooting up the school.’
Posted inSchools and Education
Fairfield, school district move closer to reaching snowplow agreement
The SAD 49 school board will discuss contracting with the town to continue plowing snow at the Lawrence High School complex.
Posted inSchools and Education
AOS 92 board sends plan to dissolve school district to state commissioner
If the plan is approved, the final decision will go before voters in the district’s municipalities — Waterville, Winslow and Vassalboro — in the spring.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Baxter Academy set to open new Portland building
The location at 185 Lancaster St. has been specially outfitted for STEM learning.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News, Schools and Education, Sports, Varsity Maine
Scarborough High wrestler with one leg finds home after years of hardship
Sam Leishman’s limb was amputated when he was a baby in Ethiopia and he spent years in foster care in Colorado.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
New, $60 million Mt. Ararat High School gets Topsham board approval
The new school, to be completed in 2020, will be built on the existing school’s athletic fields.
Posted inSchools and Education
Air quality better after outcry about aging Manchester Elementary
RSU 38 has spent over $100,000 to improve air and cleanliness at the 65-year-old school, which came under fire earlier this year from parents complaining about dirty classrooms and sick children.
Posted inSchools and Education
Colby College expands financial aid initiative
Students coming from households who earn less than $60,000 a year will have a parent contribution of $0, the college said Friday.