RSU 56 schools planned to reopen their buildings on Thursday but four recent COVID-19 infections have left the schools without adequate bus driver/custodians.
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With increased COVID-19 occurrence rates, central Maine schools modify learning plans
Messalonskee High School, Waterville Alternative School, Upper Kennebec Valley Jr./Sr. High School and Skowhegan- and Newport-based schools shift learning methods as COVID-19 infections worsen.
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School outing clubs face obstacles during COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
‘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.”
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 inMaine, 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The deal affects about 3,000 retirees, who will now have the option of keeping a group health plan that would have been replaced by a health exchange system.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.