High school juniors improve their math and writing scores from last year, but reading scores are down. Statewide, students’ science scores also are up.
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Local, state and national schools and education news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Is UNE ready for football with a team of its own?
The school plans to add the sport on the Biddeford campus by 2017, hoping to boost its image and enrollment, build community and enhance academic programs.
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Oakland’s RSU 18 gets $44K for farm-to-school menus
The U.S. Department of Agriculture money is a planning grant that will be used to set up a local-food program for the five-town school district.
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National college faculty organization to investigate USM cuts
The group, which lobbies on behalf of academics, plans to send a team because the changes ‘seem to be much more far-reaching than those we’ve seen before.’
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New round of USM cuts targets 14 non-faculty jobs, capital projects
Officials also plan to revamp research programs and tap reserve funds as they close a projected $16 million budget gap for the next fiscal year.
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Madison students host 25th annual free Thanksgiving dinner
Students at Madison Area Memorial High School celebrated an early Thanksgiving Tuesday by preparing and serving dinner for area senior citizens.
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Bath, West Bath agree to settle school funding dispute
West Bath has agreed to accept a $1.25 million cash settlement in a dispute over cost sharing in the RSU 1 school district.
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Students disrupt Maine university trustees meeting
About 100 student protesters shout down the board chairman, demanding the trustees stop the budget cuts at the University of Southern Maine.
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Trustees look at worst-case scenario for Maine university finances
The seven-campus system needs a drastic change in current trends to head off a deficit that could reach $90 million in 2020, according to a new five-year projection.
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Making USM ‘metropolitan’ can’t be done ‘on the cheap’
The head of the steering committee charged with creating a strategy says it would cost about $900,000 per year.