The state’s educators have won a pay raise but haven’t yet secured additional school aid.
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Lawmakers didn’t fund Maine schools before adjournment last week
The lobbying group that represents superintendents warns that failure to release the more than $1 billion in funding could be ‘disruptive.’
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Maine Voices: Proficiency-based learning opponents should get out of the way of education
Let us teach. Let us implement one of your mandates before you begin another one.
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North Yarmouth Academy students walk out of school to protest gun violence
The student-led walkout in Yarmouth was part of a nationwide effort held on the 19th anniversary of the fatal Columbine High School shootings.
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Former U.S. senator blasts Rep. Poliquin: ‘This character from Maine’ is trying to gut fresh fruit, veggies in school
Tom Harkin of Iowa says Bruce Poliquin is so determined to push frozen blueberries from his district that it imperils the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program that serves 4 million schoolchildren.
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Judge will decide by Friday whether Deering student can compete in poetry contest
Allan Monga won Maine’s Poetry Out Loud competition, but the rules of the national contest prevent the asylum seeker from competing.
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Maine Voices: College is smart choice, if you want it
Here are four bad reasons to rule out higher education and four good reasons to rule it in – namely the security it brings.
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Maine test scores hold steady in latest ‘Nation’s Report Card’
Maine meets or exceeds national averages, but falls short of Northeast states’ results in math and reading.
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Scores attend legislative hearing to debate merits of proficiency based diploma
Lawmakers hear testimony on bills to delay, significantly change or repeal the six-year-old law that was a key education reform of the LePage administration.
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Legislative committee rejects plan to shift pre-schoolers’ special education services to districts
Citing the complexity of the proposal, the panel instead votes to set up a task force to study the issue and make a recommendation by December.