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 […]
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
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.
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.
Douglas Haig, artist and veteran
‘I am going to be in debt for the rest of my life’
Scott Berry, facility director
‘… unless you have a piece of paper …’
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.
Steve Train, lobsterman
‘I’m fortunate my industry is OK’
Seniors at UMA display variety of senior thesis art
The exhibition features projects including drawings of hands that cover the walls of one corner and horses sculpted out of parts of old engines and farm equipment.
Skowhegan schools’ ‘Indians’ controversy not going away after vote
SAD 54 school officials and advocates of changing the nickname say the issue is not over and agree that more education should happen.