UMA student Meghan Schultz recently traveled to Cuba as part of college class, finding a place at odds with her earlier worldview about the communist country and its people, Mark Tardif writes.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Construction starts soon at Augusta’s First Amendment Museum
The Gannett House will be restored as project organizers seek input on what the museum should include.
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New Farmington area school food service director brings variety to the menu
Former culinary specialist for the Maine Department of Education Andrew Hutchins has restructured the lunch menus of the district’s seven schools to give students a greater range of choice.
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Maine will have 2nd highest top tax rate in U.S. if Question 2 passes
If voters approve Question 2, households with incomes of more than $200,000 would pay the second-highest tax rate in the nation, which would raise $159 million for schools.
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Presidential health debate a symptom of ‘ableist’ attitudes
Presidents feeling that they need to keep health issues private is a symptom our society not allowing for physical differences and impairments to be seen as both expected and normal, Elizabeth Powers writes.
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Maine Community College System to request 13 percent increase in state funding
Most of the money would pay for expanding programs to train the types of workers needed by Maine’s businesses.
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RSU 9 approves four new ed tech positions
Four new special education ed techs will be added to Regional School Unit 9 following the school board’s approval of the $74,819 expenditure.
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Support for tax to fund education splits along party lines in survey
But those in favor of requiring wealthy earners to pay more hold a distinct advantage – 60 percent.
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UMA to offer drone course beginning in October
The seven-week course, through the school’s aviation program, is designed to prepare students to become licensed unmanned aerial vehicle pilots.
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School district budget approved in RSU 4
Voters in Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales supported the $18.79 million spending plan.