The funding will come directly from the state and will not lead to a further increase in proposed tax impact.
Schools & Education
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, News, Schools & Education
Leavitt Area High School removes sex-themed graphic novel from library
‘Let’s Talk About It’ covers topics likes consent, body image, safe sex and gender/sexual identity, but also shares advice on masturbation, kinks, sexting and porn.
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Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times, Schools & Education
Mexico vocational school budget vote set for May 3
The proposed $2.4 million budget is nearly $400,000 more than this year.
Posted inFranklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser, News, Schools & Education
Spruce Mountain school board approves rafting trip
Students learn paddling strokes, how to tip a canoe over and water safety.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News, Schools & Education
Wales-based school system passes $22.45 million budget
The directors representing Sabattus, Litchfield and Wales adopted a budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The increase is 5.46% more than the previous year’s budget of $21.3 million.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Budget for Readfield-area schools includes addition of resource officer
The decision to add a school resource officer in Regional School Unit 38 follows the mass shooting last May at a public elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and active-shooter hoaxes in November that impacted 10 schools across Maine, including two in central Maine.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Maine legislators consider bills to change state K-12 funding formula
The Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs heard testimony on 8 bills proposing changes to or examination of the state’s K-12 funding formula.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Schools & Education
Poland-based school district forming task force to examine building, staff challenges
Minot Consolidated School principal has been asked to develop an emergency closure plan in case money for a new heating system is not approved or there is a catastrophic failure making the school inoperable.
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times, Schools & Education
Dixfield-based district rescinds vote to build private bathroom stalls
The private stalls would have been built with a $214,750 state loan from the Maine Department of Education.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Most Lewiston city councilors oppose $101 million school budget
The majority of the City Council said they will not support the $101 million school budget approved by the School Committee in a split vote last week.