AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Education is telling schools to prohibit the use of airway-restrictive restraints on students until the department can revise its regulations on restraint and seclusion of students in public and private schools. In a Sept. 10 letter from Education Commissioner Angela Faherty to superintendents and other school personnel, the department […]
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Maineiacs Education Found
MAINEiacs Education Foundation By Paul Spellman The Lewiston MAINEiacs organization is firmly committed to providing our players a quality education during their playing days in Lewiston as well as their post playing days, wherever that may be. The Lewiston MAINEiacs Education Foundation was founded in the spring of 2004 as a non-profit organization. Nineteen of […]
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Fragmented educational system
Is it any wonder that Maine failed to place in the federal Race to the Top education reform competition? What a wake-up call. One must ask what, if any, educational improvements have resulted from Maine’s long, costly school consolidation campaign? Maine still hasn’t tackled major revisions to our fragmented educational system. Gov. John Baldacci’s initial […]
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Maine’s Colby College bans hard liquor
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Colby College is following two other elite liberal arts colleges in Maine by banning hard alcohol from campus this fall. Dean of Students Jim Terhune says the goal is to eliminate “dangerous drinking.” He says hard liquor, not beer or wine, is the culprit when students are hospitalized for excessive drinking. […]
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Better programs needed
School budgets take up most of a town’s budget, leaving little for anything else, yet it seems to me that there is something terribly wrong with the way special-needs students are handled in the public school system. In Maine, state and local expenditures for special-needs children (ages 3 to 21) is an eye-opener. According to […]
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World champ helps kids with frisbee
LEWISTON — Todd Brodeur spun a pink Frisbee on his finger Wednesday as dozens of campers sat mesmerized by the whirling disc. Brodeur showed his young audience of nearly 200 cool ways they could throw and catch the plastic toy. One minute he was juggling three brightly colored Frisbees, the next, he was flinging two […]
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Local education opportunities aplenty
Schools in L-A from the elementary level to high school, as well as many programs offering educational opportunities for adults, are gearing up for the 2010-2011 year. They have a lot to offer from the introduction of new programs, optimization of older resources and improvements including a new school in Lewiston. Leon Levesque, Lewiston’s superintendent […]
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Maine youth to open Bates Dance Festival finale
LEWISTON — As in a scene from “Fame,” dance instructor Dana Reed circled her students on the Olin Arts Center stage. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,” Reed drilled Tuesday. The teenagers leaped. They twirled. They pointed toes and moved legs forward and backward while gracefully holding out arms. In a different building, […]
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Website shows Maine graduation rates, but launches with mistakes
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A conservative think tank has unveiled an updated education Web site to include test score and graduation rate data for every school district in Maine. The Maine Heritage Policy Center created its education website, GreatSchoolsForME.org, earlier this year. The site is intended to show spending and performance data for every Maine […]
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Helena school board gets earful on sex ed proposal
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A proposed sex education program that teaches fifth graders the different ways people have intercourse and first graders about gay love has infuriated parents and forced the school board to take a closer look at the issue. Helena school trustees were swamped Tuesday night at a hearing that left many of […]