Maine’s attorney general warned that the schools would have to abide by state antidiscrimination laws, including those that protect LGBTQ students and faculty, and that requirement has frustrated the families who sued.
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Affordable housing crisis creates another barrier for Maine college students
Limited student housing and high rents are leaving students scrambling to find a place to live before school starts.
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Photos: Collecting for classrooms
Volunteers collect and organize school supplies at Vassalboro Fire Station on Saturday to be distributed to local classrooms. Photos by Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans.
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Widespread school resignations leave some local districts scrambling as students prepare to return
The need for ed techs is especially great at some local schools, as the jobs have undertaken more responsibilities without corresponding increases in pay.
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Nebraska school officials close newspaper after students publish LGBTQ articles
An email from a school employee cancelling the student paper’s printing services said it was “because the school board and superintendent are unhappy with the last issue’s editorial content.”
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Thousands of Mainers stand to benefit from student debt relief
The president’s decision to provide $10,000 in federal student debt reduction will benefit about 177,000 borrowers who live in Maine, the Maine Center for Economic Policy estimates.
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Want to borrow ‘Gender Queer’ from your local library? You may have to get in line.
As of Wednesday, nearly all of the copies of the graphic novel were either checked out or in the process of being checked out from libraries across Maine.
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Augusta-area schools seek grant funding for electric buses, but officials question practicality of vehicles in rural areas
If approved, three Augusta-area school districts could receive a total of eight electric school buses that would arrive by October 2024.
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UNE receives $5 million grant to support chronic pain research
The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence at UNE will use the federal funds to continue its research into the study of pain and novel pain therapeutics.
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Maine schools act to mitigate ‘forever chemicals’ found in drinking water
Mount Desert Island High and Chebeague Island School are among the schools that have installed filters after testing showed PFAS levels exceeded the state’s allowable limit of 20 parts per trillion.