The university system is getting 23 percent of its food from local growers and producers, and is on track to spend $1.5 million on goods from 134 Maine food producers this fiscal year.
Schools and Education
Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Committee recommends closure of Randolph school
The SAD 11 school board will take up the recommendation about the T.C. Hamlin School when it meets Thursday.
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Autistic student’s appeal in novel Maine disability rights case to begin in Boston
The parents of Ben Pollack, who is nonverbal, want his school to let him wear a device that records his day, but the district says that would violate the privacy of other students.
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Board begins new superintendent search process for Maranacook Area Schools
Superintendent Donna Wolfrom is leaving at the end of the school year to lead the schools in Cape Elizabeth, and the search for her replacement has begun.
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Oakland-based RSU 18 discusses next year’s budget
School board also talked about how to fill chief operations officer.
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Lewiston High School student charged after school closed by hoax
The student is accused of posting on social media that a friend would be ‘shooting up the school.’
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Fairfield, school district move closer to reaching snowplow agreement
The SAD 49 school board will discuss contracting with the town to continue plowing snow at the Lawrence High School complex.
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AOS 92 board sends plan to dissolve school district to state commissioner
If the plan is approved, the final decision will go before voters in the district’s municipalities — Waterville, Winslow and Vassalboro — in the spring.
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Baxter Academy set to open new Portland building
The location at 185 Lancaster St. has been specially outfitted for STEM learning.
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Scarborough High wrestler with one leg finds home after years of hardship
Sam Leishman’s limb was amputated when he was a baby in Ethiopia and he spent years in foster care in Colorado.