The public is invited to the event, which will start at 10 a.m. Thursday at the complex at 150 Main St.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
South Portland High recognizes grad for academic achievement – 75 years later
Although she had an elite grade point average, Mildred Marie Truland Dexter was passed over for the academic honor.
Portland school board to include island schools, non-school facilities in cost-saving review
Redistricting, school closure and program changes could be among the possibilities considered in a major facilities assessment.
Henninger takes over as principal at Brunswick High School
Troy Henninger, a former assistant principal at Cape Elizabeth High, comes to Brunswick after four years at Boston Latin Academy.
Mini-sailboat’s transatlantic voyage connects Scarborough students with school in England
It arrives in England about three months after its launch, allowing second-graders in Maine to collaborate with a British school in studying world exploration and how communities evolve.
500 new students arrive at University of Maine at Farmington
Freshmen and transfer students spent Labor Day doing orientation activities outdoors, including an 11-mile paddle down the Kennebec River.
With state school funding drying up, Portland studying possible school closures, redistricting
Outside consultants and a local commission are to provide recommendations by early 2019.
Temporary rules in place for New Hampshire’s Medicaid to Schools expansion
Nearly two-thirds of the state’s schools participated in the more limited program in 2017.
Windham High offering new class on ‘adulting’
Life 101 includes lessons such as how to change a tire and basic grown-up etiquette.
Justice Department backs lawsuit led by Maine resident challenging Harvard’s ‘racial balancing’
The lawsuit by Students For Fair Admission, whose president lives in Maine part-time, argues that the Ivy League school’s consideration of race in its admissions policy is discriminatory.