But school board members continue to back the embattled superintendent, saying he has improved test scores and saved money.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Somerset County early childhood project to receive $300,000
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded the grant to the Maine Early Learning group as an investment to support low-income families in rural education.
Parent suing Maranacook district picked for school board
Adam Woodford and his wife allege that a teacher put a bag over their daughter’s head to humiliate her.
No Waterville community educational forum on Wednesday
The forum on Waterville school expenses will be rescheduled after February vacation week, which is next week.
Central Maine superintendents weigh options for making up for snow days
As Augusta and Waterville area communities still were digging out Tuesday, school officials monitored reports about another storm expected from Wednesday into Thursday.
Maine students’ joy over snow days could turn to gloom in June
Most school districts already have had four or five cancellations, and more storms could push classroom time deeper into summer.
Waterville Board of Education to host educational forum on budget
The public is invited to Wednesday meeting at 6 p.m. in Trask Auditorium at Waterville Senior High School.
Athens Community School gets state grant to drill a water well on school property
School currently gets its water from a nearby well downtown, which is privately owned and serves five other homes and businesses.
For rural Maine towns, Trump administration’s school-choice focus could be ‘catastrophic’
East Millinocket, like many isolated towns, sees little help, and perhaps harm, from new priorities at the top.
Black Lives Matter members have no plans to protest USM talk
A controversial Maine lawmaker is scheduled to speak Thursday on the Portland campus.