The American Federation of Teachers says Navient failed to guide borrowers through a loan forgiveness program.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Yarmouth voters will decide $60 million bond questions in November
About $52 million would go to school projects and $8.5 million would pay for a new public safety center.
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Posted inMaine, News, Politics, Schools and Education
USM president says retired professor went ‘rogue’ in offering trip to lobby Collins as college course
Glenn Cummings says the ‘pop-up’ course was pulled as soon as he found out about it – hours before a group of demonstrators was to leave for Washington on a chartered bus.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Three Maine schools named ‘Blue Ribbon’ schools for academic progress
Frenchville, Yarmouth and Falmouth schools are honored by the U.S. Department of Education.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Madison, Carrabec and Bingham students put what they learn to work
A $300,000 state grant is funding an alternative hands-on education program for middle school students from the three school districts.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Belgrade to see new traffic pattern proposed for school
The project is aimed at separating the area where parents drop off and pick up their children from the bus loading and unloading area.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Schools and Education
Freeport school had concerns about teacher accused of sexually assaulting student
Officials at Pine Tree Academy noticed earlier this year that the math teacher was spending too much time alone with a female student.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Farmington-based RSU 9 struggling with $230,000 in unbudgeted costs
The expenses include salary changes and technology needs that are a result of an enrollment increase.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Schools and Education
Teacher at religious school in Freeport charged with sexual assault
Derek Michael Boyce, a math instructor at Pine Tree Academy, run by Seventh-day Adventists, is accused of gross sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl.
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Charlie Butt, accomplished athlete who coached at Bowdoin for decades, dies at 93
He was a natural at many sports, beloved by his teams at the school, qualified for the 1948 Olympics and won 22 national titles in squash.