Administrators, teachers and parents joined current and former Farmington students to thank retiring Betsy Turcotte.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Augusta schools to offer birth control prescriptions, pregnancy tests
The school board votes 7-1 to make services available to Cony junior high and high school students through the student health center.
Messalonskee graduate takes aim at bullies through song
Dom Colizzi, a target of bullies during his high school days, has kicked off an anti-bullying campaign at the Waterville Opera House.
California teacher tenure law ruled unconstitutional
Other states tackling the issue are also paying close attention to how the case plays out in the nation’s most populous state.
Lawrence High School seniors graduate
Students at the Fairfield high school brave the heat to express the importance of a major milestone in 156 young lives.
UMaine waves hiring rules
Former spokesman for Gov. LePage to return as executive director of public affairs.
UMaine System waives rules to hire executive public affairs position
Dan Demeritt, a former LePage staffer, is hired to a new $125,000-a-year position amid the system’s financial crisis.
Waterville High School graduates 134 students
Keynote speaker and English teacher Ian Wilson reminded the students to thank those who have helped them as they write their life stories.
Messalonskee graduates 188 on Thursday night
The Oakland high school seniors are a tight-knit bunch who ‘are surrounded by people who love you most.”
Winslow, Benton students get free books
The schools are the latest in program funded by a Read Across America $10,000 grant that is bringing books to first-graders across the state.