The board briefly considered updating the policy with wording that dates back 33 years.
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Parents ask officials to protect 4 Portland schools as city looks to cut costs
Presumpscot school parents pack a meeting and turn in a petition calling for the four schools that are in line for renovations to remain open.
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Alfond Foundation’s $3.6 million grant to community colleges boosts workforce development
The grant will help expand short-term training programs to ease labor shortages in health care, information technology and other industries.
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ACLU Maine can’t intervene in lawsuit over religious-school tuition, judge rules
The case challenges a state law that bars taxpayers’ money from being used to pay for students to attend religious schools.
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Unum donates $300,000 to girls’ leadership program
The gift to the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute will be matched by the Harold Alfond Foundation.
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Maine gets $2.9M grant for school safety
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.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
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.