The finalists will now have interviews and a school site visit before the teacher of the year is announced.
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No classrooms yet? No problem for new charter high school in Skowhegan
Cornville Regional Charter School’s ninth grade to begin Monday with a couple of weeks of off-site studies.
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UMaine Presque Isle wins grant initially rejected because of line spacing
Sen. Susan Collins praises the Department of Education’s reversal of an ‘absurd bureaucratic decision.’
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Winslow School Board calls council resolution a sign of ‘lack of trust’
A proposal to form an ad hoc committee to study school finance and performance drew ire from school board members and staff, who say the trust issue between the schools and the town has gotten worse the past few years.
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At new Cianbro facility, LePage praises vocational training, calls teachers ‘a dime a dozen’
Gov. Paul LePage, speaking at the grand opening for the Pittsfield company’s new workforce training facility, said a mentor program is more valuable than ‘just teaching out of a book.’
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Waterville Board of Education approves school budget in rubber stamp vote
Superintendent Eric Haley also discusses study on whether to disband AOS 92.
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BJ’s Wholesale fills every Maine teacher’s classroom wish list
The donation of $100,000 will go for 165 classroom projects in K-12 schools across the state.
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New rules for high school proficiency scrutinized at Augusta hearing
Advocates for students with disabilities are concerned the new rules will make it harder for those youths to earn diplomas.
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Colby College receives $475,000 from National Science Foundation for research
The research projects include studying methods to produce chemical compounds and investigating environmental changes that caused a mass extinction 252 million years ago.
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Thomas College internship program connects students to community
The executive director of the new Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation wants students to get experience earlier to create a stronger tie with central Maine.