Brunswick-based Teens to Trails has awarded trips to clubs at Cony, Gardiner Area and Maranacook Community High schools, hoping to help students explore the outdoors.
Schools & Education
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‘Steep learning curve’: Educators are finding rewards amid the challenges of pandemic teaching
Maine teachers report working as many as 100 hours a week as they navigate the pandemic. Says one Rumford educator: “The sheer amount of it is overwhelming, trying to keep up with everything.”
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Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times, Schools & Education
RSU 56 plans for winter sports beginning in early December
Directors OK’d starting with skills and drills and eventually scrimmages in early January.
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley, Schools & Education
Heads of teachers’ unions ask for more time, flexibility in age of COVID
Eight presidents of western Maine education associations send letter to Sun Journal.
Posted inFranklin, Schools & Education, The Franklin Journal
RSU 9 board approves new evaluation system, more district grievances expressed
New administrator evaluation system approved and updates to language acquisition program; winter sports discussed.
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times, Schools & Education
More COVID cases extend RSU 56 school closings to Dec. 3
A staff member and a student at separate Dixfield buildings have tested positive.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools & Education
UMaine System, unions settle dispute over retirees’ health insurance
The deal affects about 3,000 retirees, who will now have the option of keeping a group health plan that would have been replaced by a health exchange system.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser, Oxford Hills, Schools & Education, The Bethel Citizen
In-school, at home … where are the students?
Students are getting bounced around between in person, hybrid and remote learning as COVID-19 surges this fall. Four school districts in Oxford and Franklin counties report varying success at engaging students through online classes.
Posted inFranklin, Schools & Education, The Franklin Journal
RSU 9 school board agenda
Regional School District 9 Board of Directors agenda 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 24, 2020 ***The school board meeting will be conducted via Zoom which the public can attend by clicking on this link*** The agenda has been amended to change the order of the items – 11/24/20 I. Call to order II. Pledge of allegiance III. […]
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As cases rise, Maine colleges prepare to send students home to finish semester
Colleges around Maine will send students home to finish the semester remotely after Thanksgiving, but only after testing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during travel.