As some school districts work to set up guidelines, one platform, MagicSchool, already has over 8,500 educator accounts in Maine.
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Chellie Pingree, Jared Golden join House Democrats’ call for release of withheld education funds
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing $7 billion in federal school funding, including $26 million for Maine, which 150 House Democrats decried as illegal in a Thursday letter to the Department of Education.
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Trump administration plans to abolish TRIO college access programs; Collins wants to save them
Sen. Susan Collins and others in Congress are trying to save the programs that open doors to higher education, while the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed budget for 2026 would eliminate all federal funding to keep them going.
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LePage administration continues regional schools push
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education said this week it has received nearly two dozen proposals from 102 schools that want to launch new regional centers. Maine’s shrinking, largely rural schools have been working to share resources with other schools for years. But Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration pushed lawmakers this year to create […]
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Betsy DeVos uses her own plane when she travels — and does not bill the government
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reads a book to elementary students in Prince William County, Virginia. Unlike her predecessors, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos does not fly commercial airlines when she travels on the job. Instead, she takes her own private plane — and never bills the government, according to a spokeswoman. “Secretary DeVos travels […]
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School board prepares for more cuts to budget
DIXFIELD — Regional School Unit 56 directors reviewed three possible budgets at their meeting Tuesday night in an effort to get a spending plan passed for 2017-18. The district’s proposed $13.2 million budget was rejected by voters this month. It represented an increase of over 20 percent in assessments to Canton, Carthage, Dixfield and Peru, compared […]
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State hosting expo to teach Maine educators about virtual tools
AUGUSTA (AP) — Imagine diving into coral reefs or exploring the surface of Mars from your school desk. Maine educators are going to get some help learning how to bring virtual reality into the classroom. The Maine Department of Education and the Maine State Library are hosting a free virtual reality expo on June 19. […]
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Board approves extending school day to make up snow days
BETHEL — If the commissioner of the Maine Department of Education approves the plan, students in School Administrative District 44 will go to school for an extra hour for 25 days. The extended school day is one option for school districts to make up snow days without to extending the school year into late June, […]
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Sen. Angus King to vote against Betsy DeVos as education secretary
AUGUSTA — Independent U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine will vote against President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary because of her views in favor of school choice. “Her whole career has been school choice to the exclusion of the basic public education system, and I am just such a firm believer in public education […]
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Gov. Paul LePage signs order to encourage regional schools
AUGUSTA — Looking to incentivize school consolidation in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage issued a sweeping executive order on Monday calling for new regional school models. The Republican governor signed the executive order on Monday, but it was posted to his state website on Tuesday and it directs the Maine Department of Education to take three main steps: […]