AUBURN — Incumbent Brent Bilodeau and Faith Fontaine won at-large seats on the School Committee in a four-way race Tuesday. Bilodeau and Fontaine beat John Carney and Lawrence Pelletier. Fontaine had 2,045 votes; Bilodeau had 1,406. The other committee seats were unopposed. Winning seats were Bonnie Hayes, Ward 2; Thomas Kendall, Ward 3; Tammy Neilson, […]
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The Hot Corner: Advantages in public vs. private debate vastly overstated
A funny thing happened Saturday while I watched Lisbon celebrate a double-overtime field hockey playoff victory over North Yarmouth Academy. I realized that we were all gathered at a private school. We were standing on expensive artificial turf. And the underprivileged, impoverished public school children had somehow eluded fate and advanced into the next round. […]
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Auburn schools have 36 fewer students this year
AUBURN — Enrollment numbers for Auburn schools show there are 3,574 students this year, 36 fewer than last year. “We are not having the same excitement as Lewiston is having,” Superintendent Katy Grondin said. Lewiston was projected to receive 100 more students this year, but has 250 new students. Data from Grondin showed Edward Little […]
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New Lewiston elementary school to be built at Franklin Pasture
LEWISTON — The School Committee will be asked Monday to approve a proposal to combine the pupils of Longley and Martel elementary schools at a school to be built at the Franklin Pasture Sports Complex at the Lewiston High School. The athletic fields will be relocated, according to Superintendent Bill Webster, blended into what will […]
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Lewiston schools to offer free meals to all students
For students who eat lunch every day at school, that’s a $10 savings each week for a high school student, $7.55 a week for an elementary school student. Like a growing number of schools across the country, Lewiston is joining the so-called “Community Eligibility Provision,” created under the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 […]
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#AuburnForum: Students will tweet from Community Conversations
AUBURN — Auburn Middle School students will tweet about the proposed city and school budgets during the Community Conversations public forum at the school cafeteria Thursday, April 16. To follow the tweets, the hashtag is #auburnforum. The students’ tweeting “gives it an extra dimension,” Superintendent Katy Grondin said. “People who follow Twitter and can’t be there, […]
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In rebuttal, R. Sabine: Use testing to evaluate teachers
In his guest column of March 8, Lewiston School Superintendent Bill Webster praised the Smarter Balanced Assessment test and recommended that parents not opt-out. On those two points, the superintendent and I are in agreement and no one is more surprised, than I. For decades, annual state-mandated standardized testing revealed the unpleasant failure of public […]
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R. Bunn-Laban: Education’s three components
I was impressed that Lewiston Schools Superintendent Bill Webster had the courage to mention the educational elephant in the room — poor parenting (Sun Journal story, Friday, March 13). Not the parents who are reading this letter, but the ones who never attend an open house, musical concert, sporting event, bake sale, or spelling bee. […]
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Lewiston lawmaker helps lead charge for bill on standardized test opt-out
AUGUSTA — A Lewiston lawmaker is helping lead the charge on a bill that would make it easier for parents to keep their children from taking standardized tests in public schools. State. Sen. Nate Libby, D-Lewiston, said Thursday the bill he’s c0-sponsored with state Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, is simple and straightforward and makes it […]
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K. McClure-Richard: Policies wrong for the children
As Lewiston parents and teachers we are deeply concerned about the upcoming MEA/Smarter Balanced Assessments and their implications for education in our community. Our concerns are deep and far-reaching. We are concerned for our children, whom we know will be required to forgo many hours of time spent learning to complete a test that is […]