The 59-page report by a Boston-area law firm says officials did not take appropriate steps to investigate allegations by Rosa Slack, who filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission in 2018.
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More money, insurance coverage proposed to entice Auburn bus drivers
The School Department has more than five positions open.
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ACLU sues to block suspension of Cape student at center of sexual assault controversy
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.
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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.