Interpreting the decision on Maine’s tuition program is complicated by a state law that bars schools that receive tuition from discriminating against students and staff based on gender or sexual orientation.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inCommunity, Elections, Local Elections, Maine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Residents approve $13.4 million budget for Pittsfield-area school district
Residents of the three School Administrative District 53 towns — Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield — voted 240 to 124 last week to approve the district budget.
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Posted inNew England, News, Schools and Education
Dartmouth to eliminate loans for undergraduate students
Dartmouth is joining Ivy League peers Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University in adopting no-loan policies.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Maine’s educators are exhausted
Teachers, administrators and a social worker from across the state told us about the unprecedented challenges they faced during the school year that mercifully ended last week.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Beloved Maranacook teacher, coach Steve DeAngelis retires
Steve DeAngelis has been with the district for 44 years, with 42 of them spent teaching. He will retire to spend more time with his family and run his nonprofit.
Posted inCommunity, Maine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
School officials told harassment of minority students at Lawrence High School a recurring problem
A parent of a student at the school and a teacher there told MSAD 49 directors Thursday that there’s a hostile environment at the school where students regularly use racial slurs and LGBTQ+ teens are bullied and harassed.
Posted inNew England, Schools and Education
Massachusetts bishop punishes school over Black Lives Matter, Pride flags
The Diocese of Worcester has told a local middle school that it can no longer identify itself as a Catholic school.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Maine legislative panel grills UMaine chancellor over ‘egregious’ presidential search
UMaine Chancellor Dannel Malloy and the board of trustees Chairperson Trish Riley spoke virtually to the Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
UMaine trustees offer chancellor short-term contract extension, delaying decision on his future with system
Trish Riley, chair of the University of Maine System board of trustees, announces Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy’s contract has been extended through mid-July, allowing the board time to discuss the matter at its July 11 meeting.
Posted inNation & World, News, Schools and Education
Campus sex assault rules fall short, say critics, prompting overhaul call
As many victims of campus sexual assault see it, guidelines put in place to protect them at colleges have a long way to go to fulfill the promise of Title IX.