LEWISTON — A Lewiston-Auburn-based charter school is a possible proposal to fill one of the last four available charter school slots in Maine. All of ME Academy, a kindergarten through fifth-grade school, was one of six proposals, including a virtual school that has applied the last three years, outlined in letters of intent sent to the […]
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State gives virtual charter school more time to meet enrollment minimum
AUGUSTA — Maine’s first virtual school is getting more time to meet its enrollment requirement. The Maine Charter School Commission on Tuesday approved extending the enrollment deadline for Maine Connection Academy from June 1 to July 15. The school needs to enroll 243 students before it can open next fall. John Larouche, an attorney for […]
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Maine’s first virtual charter school needs 200 more applications to open
FALMOUTH — The first virtual charter school authorized by the Maine Charter Commission is on schedule to open in 2014-15, though it needs to receive almost 200 more applications by August, according to an organizer of the school. Maine Connections Academy has received just over 50 intent-to-enroll applications, according to the school’s board chairwoman, Rep. […]
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Commission rejects Lewiston-Auburn charter school, OKs virtual school
AUGUSTA — There will be no publicly financed charter school opening in Lewiston-Auburn this fall. A state commission not only voted unanimously Monday to deny the application of the Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School, it voted to strike language in a report inviting the school with Turkish ties from applying again. And two members of the […]
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Maine House votes in favor of moratorium on virtual charter schools
AUGUSTA — The future of virtual charter schools in Maine could head in a new direction because of two bills under consideration in the Legislature, including a moratorium on the creation of online schools which passed with significant support Tuesday in the House of Representatives. Another bill presented Monday to the Legislature’s Education Committee, but […]
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Maine panel OKs ban on virtual charter schools
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine legislative committee has approved a bill that would ban virtual charter schools while the state works on offering online learning resources to all students by the fall. The Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee approved the amended bill Wednesday. The Portland Press Herald reports that under the legislation a stakeholders […]
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Lewiston-Auburn group among 4 applying to start charter school
AUGUSTA — Four more organizations have submitted lengthy applications to the Maine Charter School Commission to open new schools next fall, including two that are vying to be Maine’s first statewide, Internet-based “virtual schools.” The organizations that submitted full applications by the Dec. 2 deadline were the following: — Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School, which seeks […]
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Lewiston charter school application submitted
LEWISTON — An application for the first public charter school in Lewiston has been received by the Maine Charter School Commission, according to the Maine Department of Education. If approved, the proposed Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School would open in September 2014 to 120 students in grades six to 12, with the goal of enrolling 420 […]
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State gives passing grades to charter schools
AUGUSTA — Maine’s first two charter schools have received passing grades from the state. Reports from the Maine Charter School Commission said the Cornville Regional Charter School and the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Fairfield both lived up to their mission statements during the first year they were in operation. The commission did add […]
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Charter school proposed for Lewiston
AUGUSTA — An immigrant from Azerbaijan is proposing a new charter school in Lewiston. The letter of intent to the Maine Charter School Commission is one of seven new proposals. Applications for schools that want to open in the fall of 2014 are due in December. The letter of intent for a proposed Lewiston-Auburn Academy […]