A panel of lawmakers wants answers on whether Mount Ida College tried to conceal its financial woes.
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RSU 9 voters pass $35.5 million school budget
The budget includes spending for a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade program to help students develop skills to participate fully in general education classes.
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SAD 54 budget up, but local effect down
A district budget meeting on the $35.7 million spending package is scheduled for Monday in Skowhegan.
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Madison residents approve $10.1 million school budget
Although the budget is up about 3 percent, the amount of money to be raised by taxpayers in 2018-2019 is slightly less.
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UMaine researcher gets grant to study aging fat tissue
The goal of the study is to help identify treatments that could potentially stop or reverse conditions including diabetes and obesity.
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Randolph voters overwhelmingly approve plan to close Hamlin school
The Gardiner-area school district board is scheduled to vote in an emergency session at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday on whether to accept the decision and to sign the contract for modular classrooms for Pittston’s school.
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RSU 9 board seeks to address bullying in student conduct policy
“Bullying is still happening in our schools,” Mt. Blue High School sophomore Valerianne Hinkley told the board members.
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SAD 49 residents send $26.5 million school budget to June 12 ballot
The proposed budget, which includes a 1.25 percent increase from the current year’s, will be the subject of a referendum.
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Winslow building committee endorses new $8.1 million school renovation bond
Reductions were made in nearly every facet of the plan to match the Town Council’s approved bond total.
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Portland council votes 7-2 to reduce school budget by $1.1 million
The school board now will have to look for areas where it can reduce its $112 million spending plan before it is sent to voters on June 12.