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Bangor Superintendent Betsy Webb to step down in October

Bangor schools Superintendent Betsy Webb said Thursday she will step down in October after 12 years leading the city’s schools to become a professor at the University of Maine. The public announcement...

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UMaine board approves $559M budget that leaves out coronavirus costs

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Bates College will welcome students back to campus this fall

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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling. The...

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Families challenging Maine ban on state aid for religious schools see opening...

Three families who have challenged a Maine law banning the use of tax dollars to pay religious school tuition see an opening in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision that makes it easier for...

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Colby College plans to test all students for coronavirus twice a week

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Portland removes police officers from public schools

PORTLAND, Maine — Police officers will no longer be embedded inside Portland public schools. In an early morning vote concluding a marathon meeting, Portland’s school board voted not to renew a...

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Maine public university students won’t return to campus after Thanksgiving

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Head of John Bapst who expanded school’s international reputation will retire...

The longtime head of John Bapst Memorial High School, Mel MacKay, plans to retire at the end of the upcoming school year. MacKay has headed the 540-student independent high school in Bangor since...

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Debates turn emotional as schools decide how and if to open

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Unity College on track for record enrollment this fall

Unity College will have a record enrollment of nearly 1,200 students when its next term begins next week but a 33 percent decline in its four-year residential program and a $12 million shortfall.The...

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Maine schools are building outdoor classrooms as safer alternative

Schools throughout Maine are building outdoor classrooms so students and educators this fall can easily maintain social distance, while breathing some fresh air. It’s one of the many ways schools are...

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Volunteers go door-to-door to make sure immigrants get tested for coronavirus

Maine has maintained one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the country, but it made national headlines earlier this year for having one of the highest positivity rates for Black and African American...

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Colby College will use $100M Alfond grant for athletic center

Waterville’s Colby College will use a $100 million Harold Alfond Foundation grant, one of the largest gifts in the school’s history, for a new $200 million athletic facility and some Waterville...

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Maine schools saw the nation’s 4th largest enrollment drop last year

Maine’s drop in public school enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic was among the steepest declines in the nation, according to a report that found virtually every state saw fewer students during...

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The pandemic changed everything for the UMaine class of 2023

This year’s graduating class at the University of Maine is heading out into a world very different from the one in which they started as freshmen. That sentiment was a running theme in speeches during...

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Lone man protests for Palestine before graduating at UMaine

As pro-Palestine demonstrations, counter-demonstrations and police actions roiled university campuses across the country, things were pretty quiet at the University of Maine commencement Saturday...

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US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many...

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in...

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2 Christian schools argue that they shouldn’t have to follow Maine’s...

Two Maine Christian schools argued to an appeals court that they should be allowed to accept state funding despite not wanting to follow Maine’s human rights law. The schools, Crosspoint Church, which...

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Bangor schools consider $3.7M budget increase for next year

The Bangor School Department’s new budget is $3.7 million more than last year’s, mostly due to increases to staff salaries and benefits and adding new teaching positions, among other expenses.  The...

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