Brenda LaVerdiere, an Academy Hill School fourth-grade teacher, was inspired to start teaching by her father, a Waterville music instructor, and has taught in RSU 9 for 38 years.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Adult Education programs in central Maine
Area programs planned in many communities.
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’
This is not a street movie. It’s scarier. Some homes are more dangerous to coming of agers than the streets, J.P. Devine writes.
RSU 74 bus routes 2015-16
Anson, Embden, New Portland, North Anson and Solon students attend RSU 74.
Waterville Senior High School open house today
Informal event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at Sherwin Street Park.
Nursing: An art, a science and an interdisciplinary study
In junior high, I truly discovered a love for science and I took every advanced science and math class I could throughout high school. Two years of high school chemistry class lead me to declaring myself a chemistry major before I even arrived at the small liberal arts college where I studied. Over the years […]
New Mexico probes hiring of school official facing child sex abuse charges
The state attorney general vows to investigate how the state’s largest school district hired a man charged in Colorado.
Thrifty teens change the face of back-to-school shopping
They do research online and time their purchases to take advantage of sales.
UMA to help disadvantaged students in Augusta and Bangor
The federal student support services funds are meant to help some 360 students succeed at and graduate from UMA over the next five years.