The district would close a school briefly if a student tests positive, longer if there’s an outbreak of at least three cases.
Schools & Education
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Skowhegan-area schools close after student tests positive for COVID-19
MSAD 54 superintendent said on Wednesday that the district is closing schools for the remainder of the week after members of the school community may have come in contact with people who have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Alfond’s $240 million gift to UMaine System among largest ever to public higher ed institute
The money from the Harold Alfond Foundation will help transform the University of Southern Maine by providing most of the funding for a new graduate center and law school and access to a multi-university engineering program.
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Looming deadline may cause schools to leave pandemic relief unspent
School officials are scrambling to use millions of dollars in COVID-19 aid before Dec. 30.
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School survey responses
In July, the Sun Journal sent a survey to superintendents in all public schools in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties, and to superintendents in Portland, Waterville, Augusta, Winthrop and Bangor. The survey asked six questions.
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Search statewide academic performance data
We used linear regression to examine the relationship between demographic factors and student performance at varying school levels.
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Education under siege: Maine’s poorest schools facing ‘uncharted waters’ in the age of COVID
A Sun Journal data analysis shows which schools performed well and which performed poorly before the pandemic, statistics that could soon get worse for Maine’s more disadvantaged students.
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Three scenarios, three schools
How will you handle it if you need to go hybrid or fully remote but a child’s parents aren’t capable of educating them at home or aren’t capable of dealing with remote learning in any way?
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Editor’s note:
This report is part of a continuing series on poverty in Maine, and the strangling affect poverty has on our communities. The work is being done in cooperation with the Investigative Editing Corps.
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Education under Siege: A Sun Journal Investigation
This report is part of a continuing series on poverty in Maine, and the strangling affect poverty has on our communities. The work is being done in cooperation with the Investigative Editing Corps.