GUILFORD — The daily presence of a sheriff’s department investigator and attrition has halted problems caused by a gang of students at Piscataquis Community Secondary School, according to SAD 4 Superintendent Paul Stearns. Incidents of violence had occurred since the beginning of the school year perpetrated by a group of mostly eighth graders calling themselves […]
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Baxter Academy fans, foes clash on ‘dirty laundry’ at commission hearing
AUGUSTA — Leaders of a proposed Portland charter school on Monday dismissed continued accusations of corruption and unethical behavior as “dirty laundry” and “noise,” and said they are focusing on the needs of potential students. The Maine Charter School Commission applied fresh scrutiny to the proposed Baxter Academy for Technology and Science in a four-hour […]
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Ghost to visit young readers RUMFORD — Dawn Eliot-Johnson and her dalmatian, Ghost, will visit first-graders at Rumford Elementary School on Monday, March 25. The program is designed to motivate and support young readers. Ghost is the only registered dog in the Tail Waggin Tutor program. Dawn will be here around 9:30 a.m. and is […]
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Jay representative’s bill on suicide prevention draws public support
AUGUSTA — The signs of an impending suicide might be faint if they’re visible at all and you might have only a single chance to see them before it’s too late. That was the message that a long line of people who have lost loved ones to suicide shared Monday with the Legislature’s Education Committee […]
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P. Lee: Don’t close Andover Elementary
Education is the core of Andover. That is why it is so very important to keep the school; to give our small children the best possible start on their road of education, even if it means leaving the district. This year’s graduates will be the 114th graduating class and we will celebrate the 84th annual […]
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Police set up shop in Minnesota school
JORDAN, Minn. — One small-town Minnesota school district is taking a unique approach to keeping students safe: The police are moving in. In Jordan, south of Minneapolis, officials looking at school security after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut decided the police would set up satellite offices in public schools. Officers will […]
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Robot avatar allows ill child to attend school
WEST SENECA, N.Y. (AP) — In an elementary school hallway, a teacher takes her second-graders to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that’s perfectly ordinary until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, chubby-cheeked boy. Devon Carrow’s life-threatening allergies don’t […]
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RSU 73 residents approve $1.8 million construction project
LIVERMORE FALLS — Residents of the three towns in RSU 73 passed a $1.8 million building project Tuesday by an unofficial vote of 449-331. The school district plans to revamp spaces at Jay high and middle schools and the Jay Community Building so all Spruce Mountain High School students can attend classes there in late […]
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Student who shot classmate tells teacher: ‘I don’t want to shoot you’
TAFT, Calif. (AP) — The 16-year-old boy had just wounded a classmate he claimed had bullied him, fired two more rounds at students fleeing their first-period science class, then faced teacher Ryan Heber. “I don’t want to shoot you,” he told the popular teacher, who was trying to coax the teen into giving up the […]
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McMahon parents unhappy with redistricting, grill superintendent
LEWISTON — McMahon Elementary School parents Wednesday night blasted a plan to disperse poorer and English-learning students throughout the city’s six elementary schools next fall. Several in the audience of about 100 asked that the proposal be shelved. Some, in angry tones, demanded a redistricting committee be reconfigured to include McMahon school parents, and more […]