The picture is expected to change in upcoming years because many states have raised their academic standards and started using new tests to measure them.
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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Messalonskee robot team soldiering on after coach leaves
Jamee Luce, who has led the team for almost a decade, is leaving to take a job with the organization that runs student robot competitions.
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SAD 74 residents approve $9.4 million school budget
The budget passed by an overall vote of 104-57, though it was rejected by the town of Embden, where a movement is underway to explore withdrawing from the district.
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Age ain’t nothin’ but a number? In public university classroom, it’s true.
In the early 1990s I stepped away from college for what I thought would be a year or two break, in order to focus on other things. Little did I know at the time that the other things would turn out to include meeting and marrying my wife, having children and partaking in the oh-so-many […]
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Winslow Council adds school funding into final budget
The school board will use cash reserves to fund textbooks and a school bus purchase in the hope that Legislature approves increased state funding.
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Other costs eat SAD 54 charter tuition savings
The Skowhegan-based school district will pay more for special education, school buses and salaries for school administrators and teachers in proposed budget for 2015-16.
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Maranacook students to unveil memorial to World War II soldier
A Richmond man tells the story of his brother, a young soldier killed in France in 1944, as part of Sacrifice for Freedom elective.
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Steve Train, lobsterman
‘I’m fortunate my industry is OK’
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Hardest hit: College students who never finish school
So-called ‘stranded learners’ rack up mountains of debt but none of the financial promise that a degree might afford them. And in Maine, tens of thousands of them have strayed from their educational paths.
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Scott Berry, facility director
‘… unless you have a piece of paper …’