The Belgrade Central School Parent Teacher Organization is raising money to install a new playground that will be a modern upgrade from the current structures, some of which date back more than 40 years.
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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine College of Art hires new president
Laura Freid most recently worked with Yo-Yo Ma on the Silkroad Project.
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Colby College residential complex in downtown Waterville set for final votes
A planned $25 million residential complex for Colby College on the northeast tip of The Concourse downtown is under consideration for local approvals in the coming week, clearing the way for construction to start.
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Skowhegan firefighters honored for saving Waterville responder during apartment blaze
Firefighter Dan Brown was trapped under debris from a collapsed ceiling in the Feb. 1 fire on Summer Street in Waterville when Skowhegan’s Rapid Intervention Team came to his rescue.
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LePage’s school funding plan faces dozens of critics at State House hearing
Opponents of the governor’s two-year budget fill a legislative hearing and say 65 percent of school systems would lose funding.
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Waterville school officials to study feasibility of closing Albert S. Hall School
Superintendent Eric Haley is citing rising costs, declining enrollments and scarcity of school funding as reasons for studying the closure of the city school serving fourth- and fifth-graders.
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Oakland-based school board votes to revisit cost-sharing formula, 2 months since previous vote to keep it unchanged
The RSU 18 vote was spurred by a petition one school board member circulated that alleged the committee’s work wasn’t done or valid.
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Special education, English instruction costs up in proposed Augusta school budget
The $28.9 million budget draft is less that last year’s, but with less unspent cash available, taxpayers would have to provide about $600,000 more to support it.
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Lawmakers hear conflicting views on bill to ban start times before 8:30 a.m. at Maine high schools
Supporters point to the science on adolescents’ need for good sleep, but detractors predict scheduling turmoil and say decisions should be made locally.
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The mortal side of biological immortality
Our environment and life choices can really impact the rate in which we age, and we need to heed warnings of lifestyle choices that affect aging, Amber Howard writes.