AUBURN — Sporting a pink backpack, pink sneakers and an excited smile, Aurora Martel, 5, greeted her school principal Wednesday with big news. “I brought enough money to buy a milk!” Aurora said to East Auburn Community School Principal Sue Dorris. There was more. “See my backpack? I’ve got three kinds of pencils, one eraser […]
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Lewiston, Auburn superintendents talk education at chamber breakfast
AUBURN — With charts, statistics and a video of a kindergartener demonstrating his competence on an iPad, the superintendents of schools in both Lewiston and Auburn spelled out the successes and challenges facing all levels of L-A schools. The presentation by Katy Grondin, superintendent of Auburn schools, and Bill Webster, superintendent of Lewiston schools, took […]
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Lewiston, Auburn superintendents talk education at chamber breakfast
AUBURN — With charts, statistics and a video of a kindergartener demonstrating his competence on an iPad, the superintendents of schools in both Lewiston and Auburn spelled out the successes and challenges facing all levels of L-A schools. The presentation by Katy Grondin, superintendent of Auburn schools, and Bill Webster, superintendent of Lewiston schools, took […]
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Lewiston super gets unhappy tweets after not calling snow day
LEWISTON — The tweets started Sunday. “Bill Webster I will shovel your driveway if you call a snow day tomorrow,” tweeted Ty, who, from his profile, appears to be a Lewiston soccer player. “Hey, do my fellow peers and I a favor and cancel school tomorrow,” tweeted another student. One warned against false hopes. “There […]
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Parents in best position to instill motivation
The biggest problem in U.S. education isn’t teachers. It isn’t funding. It isn’t public schools versus charter schools. It isn’t unions or teacher pensions, the choice of instructional system or educational standards. All important issues, but they are peripheral to the central problem — a culture where too many parents, and by extension their children, […]