Judd, who serves as the nonprofit’s deputy executive director, will replace Ed Cervone, Educate Maine announced Thursday.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Boston College names building for alum who inspired ice bucket challenge
Boston College has announced that its new indoor baseball and softball training facility will be named after Pete Frates, who helped popularize the ALS fundraiser.
Fight over state funding for religious schools heads to federal appeals court
Judge D. Brock Hornby rules that Maine education money cannot pay tuition to religious schools in communities without state-funded schools of their own, but acknowledges an inevitable appeal.
Construction manager promises maximum price of $7.9 million for Winslow school renovations
Four months ago, the project was expected to come in $3.1 million over budget, now the school department might be able to afford to bring back some of the components they sacrificed.
Kennebunk grapples with another racial incident involving students
A video allegedly depicts two teenage girls drinking and one repeatedly using a racial slur.
Waterville early learning program opens new classroom with $4 million grant
A grant awarded to Educare Central Maine in March will go toward the classroom as well as to seven other childcare providers in the Augusta, Waterville and Skowhegan areas.
Lawmakers rush to fix how schools report alleged misconduct
Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill that aims to improve how the state tracks investigations into educators accused of wrongdoing.
Augusta school board censures member, in part for social media post
Christopher Clarke, Ward 2 board member, was admonished by his fellow board members for absences from meetings and posting messages on Facebook about closed-door discussion of administrator contracts.
RSU 4 school bus driver honored for saving bus full of kids
The bus went out of control after the trainee driver had a heart attack and passed out at the wheel.
SAD 49 superintendent says variety of reasons account for staff resignations
Reza Namin said at least one other employee is leaving because he did not like an administrative restructuring plan.