"Read to ME" challenge underway in Maine
Kids in maine may be getting an earful this month.That's because the state's "Read to ME" challenge is underway.Adults are encouraged to re ...
Maine Department of Education kicks off 10th 'Read to ME' challenge
The annual challenge encourages adults to read to kids for 15 minutes during the month of February to promote childhood ...
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Maine DOE pushes back on Republicans’ call to end gender support in schools
Participants in the Portland Pride Parade on Congress Street on June ... applies only to federal agencies and “does not inhibit the force of Maine law or locally-adopted school board policies.” The ...
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Maine advocates, schools prepare to respond to possible ICE enforcement
Although ICE activity has been focused in states with large immigrant populations, Maine advocates and lawyers are concerned about the state’s immigrant communities, especially given reports of ICE ...
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$40M deficit forces Portland Public Schools to consider deep cuts and job losses
PORTLAND, Ore. — Officials at Portland Public Schools signaled that significant budget cuts are on the horizon for the 2025-26 school year. On Wednesday, Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong ...
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Maine’s Lion Electric school buses have been a disaster. What’s next?
The school districts may have some answers soon. In a letter this month to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Pender Makin, commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, said she is ...
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Portland Public Schools says it may need to shed up to 228 positions to close $41 million budget gap
Officials at Oregon’s largest school district have been telegraphing ... during a press conference at the district’s North Portland headquarters include $12.2 million from the district ...
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Cracker Barrel in South Portland, Maine, Closes Permanently
That includes Maine's only Cracker Barrel location in South Portland, which left a sign in front of the the restaurant to announce that a decision had been made to permanently close the restaurant ...
South Portland Middle School evacuated due to gas smell
South Portland Middle School was evacuated Tuesday morning due to a gas smell. In a letter to families, Principal Rebecca Stern said seventh and eighth graders would be taken to Dr. Waldo T. Skillin ...
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South Portland Middle School evacuated due to gas smell
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — South Portland Middle School was evacuated Tuesday morning due to a gas smell. In a letter to families, Principal Rebecca Stern said seventh and eighth graders would be taken ...
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Money is there but ‘political will is lacking’: Not enough schools being built in South Africa
the Department of Education’s School Realities Education Management Information Systems publication from 2009 shows South Africa had 11.8 million learners in 24 693 public schools. The same ...