Aela Mansmann was suspended after school officials said she violated the district’s bullying policy by posting a note in a bathroom saying ‘there’s a rapist in the school.’ The ACLU says her free speech rights were violated.
Schools & Education
News and information about schools and education from the Sun Journal.
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Forum on $13.9M Lewiston High School expansion set for Tuesday
The one-hour meeting begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Lewiston Public Library.
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Lewiston group heading to NYC for unique poverty program
The 12-member team will visit the Harlem Children’s Zone to get ideas for addressing generational poverty in Lewiston.
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Central Maine schools go beyond the screen to support learning
“If we have the focus of the screen being the thing — we are doing it wrong,” said Matthew Shea, director of teaching and learning for Winthrop Public Schools, “(Devices) should be used as support and as tools, not the focus.”
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Unified basketball may be coming to Spruce Mountain High School
RSU 73 directors unanimously support the program.
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Lewiston elementary offers free clothes, food to families
While many Maine schools provide free clothing to students in need, Robert V. Connors Elementary School is one of the few to offer clothes to parents.
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Cape Elizabeth principal defends response to allegations of sexual assault
Jeffrey Shedd sends a letter to a school community embroiled in controversy over notes alleging there is a ‘rapist in our school,’ saying the 3 students who left the notes ‘made a really bad choice.’
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Racist flyers mailed to Skowhegan area school board members, others
The flyers feature a Ku Klux Klan hood, confederate flag and an Eye of Providence, and falsely says there will be a white supremacist Maine Green Independent Party fall gathering Oct. 27 at Belfast Public Library.
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Justice Department supports Mainers’ challenge of religious school tuition ban
Three families, who all live in districts that do not operate their own high schools, are seeking reimbursement.
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Cape Elizabeth students walk out to protest suspensions for sexual assault allegations
The administration says the 3 girls violated the school’s bullying policy when they posted notes accusing an unnamed person of sexual assault.