The state will prioritize help for high-need rural schools.
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Education secretary warns of student debt crisis
Betsy DeVos blames the Obama administration and its 2010 takeover of federal student loans, which stopped private banks from giving out federally subsidized loans.
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Seeing the forest for the trees at the Holt Research Forest in Arrowsic
Where the data is decades deep.
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How higher education could better serve students — and the world
Today’s students will have to tackle some of the thorniest problems humans have ever faced. We should be preparing them better.
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Telling Room students to be guests of Michelle Obama at her talk in Boston on Saturday
There’s a history between the former first lady and the Portland writing center.
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The incredible edible world of David Spahr
What Maine’s foremost mushroom expert plans to do next.
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Augusta school board rejects adding religious holidays to calendar
Despite community support for the proposed new policy, school board members said educators already work to accommodate students and the calendar is already full of events.
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Augusta schools’ proposed policy would add religious holidays to school calendar
Teachers and administrators are asked to try to avoid scheduling special events on days when some students could be absent in observance of religious holidays.
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Scarborough superintendent’s job on the line after voters stack school board with critics
Four of five board candidates elected Tuesday were endorsed by a group that sought to have Julie Kukenberger fired, and one of the new board’s first duties will be to review her contract.
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Maine’s first virtual charter school gets 5-year renewal
But officials deny a request from Maine Connections Academy to expand into new grades and lift an enrollment cap.