Ripping out all the carpets at Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico due to asbestos and mold issues is one project adding to the district’s 2024-25 unexpected budget needs.
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Rumford-based school district budget approved for 2024-25
RSU 10 voters approved the budget, 1,187-732.
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Rumford-based school district tech director, teachers present computer science program
The Harold Alfond Foundation is investing $8.2 million in additional money into the original $1 million grant obtained by the Maine Math and Science Alliance in 2021, allowing the district to extend the computer science program an additional five years.
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Rumford-based school district residents approve $37 million budget for 2024-25
A final vote is set for June 11 at polling station in each town.
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Photo Album: See the Meroby Elementary School students work with school bees
At the apiary, students were outfitted with beekeeping suits from the help of their teachers and volunteers to prepare and protect them from the possibility of getting stung.
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Students at Mexico school celebrate World Bee Day
The Mountain Valley Bees Academy apiary in Mexico was created from a $100,000 Maine Department of education grant in 2022.
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Teacher at Mexico school awarded 2024 Oxford County Teacher of the Year
Elizabeth Ledesma received the award during a ceremony on May 9 at the state capitol, where she and 15 other Maine teachers received the 2024 award for their counties.
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Falcon Camp plans summer outings for Rumford high school students
Staff will lead biking, hiking and canoeing trips in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Rumford-based school board proposes $37 million budget
The proposal is $3.7 million more than this year.
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As costs rise dramatically, Maine schools struggle with sending special education students to private schools
A change in state mandates means some school districts will pay thousands — and possibly millions more — to send some special education students to private school programs.