LEWISTON — Meeting with state legislators Sen. Nathan Libby and Rep. Roger Fuller Monday night, several members of the Lewiston School Committee said they disagree with proposed legislation to delay implementation of new high school diplomas by one year. What’s needed, they said, is guidance from the Maine Department of Education on implementing new Proficiency […]
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Special ed preschool services could shift to local schools
The new law: The Sun Journal asked the Maine Department of Education Tuesday about the new law that reduces state subsidies and returns money to districts that create regional service centers. DOE spokeswoman Rachel Paling said in a written statement that the department is in the process of training facilitators to help districts that want to […]
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Education Dept. nixes UMPI’s grant bid due to line-spacing error
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation says the federal Department of Education has refused to review a pair of grant applications due to a line-spacing issue. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Reps. Chellie Pingree and Bruce Poliquin have sent a letter to education secretary Betsy Devos about the error, urging the department to […]
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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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Lewiston school board votes to get started on new athletic fields
LEWISTON — In the first regular meeting of the new School Committee on Monday, members voted unanimously to move ahead on developing new athletic fields at Lewiston High School in anticipation of a new elementary school. The vote allows designs for new fields to be developed before the city referendum in June asks voters to […]
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DOE rejects ending Newry withdrawal negotiations
NEWRY — The Commissioner of Education said in a letter last week to SAD 44 that he does not have the authority to suspend the Newry withdrawal negotiations, as the school board had requested. The board asked for the suspension in order to pursue forming a districtwide committee to craft a local school funding formula […]
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Report predicts Lewiston enrollment growth will slow
LEWISTON — A study released Monday predicts Lewiston’s student population will continue to grow but slower than the current rate. For the past several years, Lewiston has added between 75 and 100 students each year. The six elementary schools are overcrowded. The study, which will be discussed at a Tuesday meeting, projects the current enrollment […]
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SAD 17 board considers language requirement for diploma
PARIS — All students graduating from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will have to demonstrate proficiency in a world language, but meeting that requirement may be a struggle, school officials said. Proficiency-based education requires students to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn before they progress to the next lesson, […]
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Maine high school graduation rate increased for fourth straight year in 2013
AUGUSTA, Maine — The high school graduation rate increased for the fourth straight year in Maine, the state Department of Education announced on Thursday. In 2013, 86.4 percent of the students in Maine who began ninth grade in the fall of 2009 graduated on time, the statement said. Education commissioner Jim Rier congratulated schools, but […]