Reductions may include eliminating teaching positions, sports and music programs, reducing administrator’s pay raises and cutting funding for charter schools.
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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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SAD 49 school board approves new $25.4 million budget
The spending plan includes cuts to transportation, facilities and special education, and takes more than $38,000 from extracurricular budgets.
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Messalonskee students raise, release brook trout in Oakland
Raised from eggs in a science class that ties the fish life cycle to the local ecosystem, fish were released into Messalonskee Stream with help from local experts.
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SAD 13 residents to consider budget, new leadership structure
Residents in Bingham and Moscow are being asked to approve a $3.4 million school budget, which includes $15,000 for administrative liaisons.
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Mid Maine Adult Education graduates 33
Students from Waterville, Winslow and Messalonskee school districts received high school diplomas or equivalency degrees.
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LePage’s veto upheld on school attendance bill
Sen. Nate Libby wanted to expand truancy laws.
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SAD 49 school board pledges to take a broad look at cuts
Voters recommended the board make creative decisions, but Fairfield’s town manager has questioned the sustainability of the district itself.
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Acting University of Maine president to remain an extra year
The contract of Susan Hunter has been extended to 2017.
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‘Tight’ Gardiner school budget passes last hurdle before referendum
Voters at a regional meeting backed Regional School Unit 11’s $22.8 million budget on Tuesday with little opposition.
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SAD 54 residents approve $34 million budget
The increase will be allocated among the six towns of the Skowhegan-based district if voters OK final numbers in June 9 referendum.