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PublishedApril 24, 2025
School leaders want more options to restrain students with violent behavior
District leaders are concerned about increasing behavioral issues in schools just a few years after the state raised the threshold to physically restrain or seclude students.
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PublishedApril 22, 2025
McKinnon wins Gardiner-area school board seat after recount
After a close race in the town election, Janelle McKinnon will officially represent West Gardiner on the Maine School Administrative District school board.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2025
What is a school-based health center?
Here are answers to frequently asked questions about how a school-based health center, like the one proposed for Gardiner Area High School, would operate.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2024
Augusta school board passes new guidelines on gender discrimination
Cony Middle and High School is named in a federal lawsuit that seeks to stop the implementation of the updated policies.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2024
Gardiner-area school board to explore adding health center at high school
Opponents, mostly from outside the district, have raised concerns about gender-affirming care and parental notification. But a majority of board members, as well as most members of the public who spoke Thursday, said the proposal should move forward.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2024
Health center backers address Gardiner parental concerns on gender-affirming care
Some community members said they were concerned about the potential for students to receive confidential gender-affirming care in the potential school-based health center.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2024
Watch: Police report filed after Gardiner school board candidate confronts students
School board candidate Michelle Tucker prompted a police report after speaking with three students after the September board meeting.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2024
Randolph voters approve $1.56 million municipal budget
Unlike last year, no money is appropriated in the new spending plan for trash pickup.
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PublishedApril 28, 2024
As costs rise dramatically, Maine schools struggle with sending special education students to private schools
A change in state mandates means some school districts will pay thousands — and possibly millions more — to send some special education students to private school programs.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2024
Some central Maine school districts endorse starting after Labor Day
Augusta area schools will start school after Labor Day, but snow days could possibly run school into the week of Juneteenth.
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