Supporters of the school, formerly Catherine McAuley High School, are raising funds and will meet with the school board Monday to find out what prompted the surprise decision to close the state’s only private all-girls school.
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Low enrollment leads Maine Girls’ Academy to ‘difficult and sad decision’ to close
The closure of Maine’s only all-girls private school stuns students, parents and alumnae.
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Legislators vote to ease Maine’s proficiency-based education mandate, allow more ‘local control’
Rather than repeal the 6-year-old reform law altogether, the bill would let school districts choose between continuing proficiency-based standards or reverting to a traditional grading system.
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Report: No adults saw Lewiston student struggle in the water before drowning
In the aftermath of the drowning of Rayan Issa, 13, Superintendent Bill Webster has ordered that no swimming be allowed on school field trips until the school board can develop a policy governing it.
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Sculpture installed at Falmouth High School designed to invite, engage and educate
‘Tesselation 3D’ by Jesse Salisbury of Steuben was selected from among proposals by 12 sculptors who submitted proposals for the project to ‘produce a piece of public art that will serve as a lasting focus of K-12 learning.’
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Maine to get nearly $600,000 under ocean research program that escaped Trump budget cuts
U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins make the announcement Thursday about the Maine Sea Grant College Program.
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Leadership changes afoot for Maine Community College System
The president of Southern Maine Community College will work on other initiatives in the system, while the president of Washington County Community College takes his place for three years.
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With the rise of legal weed, drug education moves from ‘don’t’ to ‘delay’
New programs focus on decision making and emphasize the facts, unlike the ‘Just Say No’ days of the ’80s.
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An explosion of high school honors grads is warping the college admissions game
Grade point averages have soared in Maine and the nation, skewing a measure of academic performance assessed by college officials.
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Two York County school districts adopt anti-violence tip system
The districts based in Kennebunk and Waterboro aim to have the ‘Say Something’ anonymous reporting system running when school starts in the fall.