An attorney for Pamela Boucher has filed a lawsuit Monday alleging wrongful termination and seeking payment for the full period of her contract until June 2023.
Schools & Education
News and information about schools and education from the Sun Journal.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Logistical challenges delay start of pooled testing in Lewiston schools
The Auburn School District aims to begin its pooled testing program next month.
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Posted inSchools & Education
Poll: Should schools use pooled testing to detect cases of COVID-19?
In Maine schools, pool testing participants will be organized into groups of five to 25 people. Each person will swab their nose with a separate cotton swab and all of the samples in a single group will later be combined. Just one PCR test is used per group. If the test is positive, each of the people in the pooled group will receive individual rapid tests to identify who is positive for COVID-19.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, Schools & Education
SAD 17 board raises substitute teacher pay
The $25 increase brings the salary from $90 to $115 a day for those not certified.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Schools & Education
A $10 million gift, USM’s largest ever, will help build a new home for the music school
The donation to the project planned for the Portland campus comes from philanthropist Suzi Osher, in honor of her late husband.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
All Maine schools to begin testing drinking water for lead under new state law
The Maine Drinking Water Program is helping coordinate and pay for schools to test all drinking and cooking water fixtures this year.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Winthrop superintendent urges parents to contact lawmakers to redefine ‘close contact’
Despite a mask mandate and a newly installed air filtration system, Winthrop public schools have at least 50 students in quarantine.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Schools & Education
Staff at Androscoggin County schools among least vaccinated in the state
Lewiston Public Schools’ central operation staff and individual school staff have some of the lowest vaccination rates statewide.
Posted inHealth, Maine, Schools & Education
Almost all UMaine System residential students have verified COVID-19 vaccination
And the percentage of full-time employees who have verified their status is about 83%, the system said.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Maine reports 1,390 COVID cases in schools, 52 active outbreaks
The numbers represent a big jump from the 14 outbreaks reported one week ago, but school and state officials say community transmission is driving the spread.