Portland’s rule, which affects Saturday’s homecoming dance, mirrors steps taken in other districts.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about some of the most critical aspects of Maine’s economy and future growth, including transportation, immigration, retail and small business, commercial development and tourism, with emphasis on consumer issues, sustainability and minority ownership. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Discipline in Schools: Technology tests academic honesty
It used to be that cheating was a simple matter of copying someone else’s homework, letting your eyes wander during a test or turning in a friend’s term paper as your own.
Now, smart phones and other information technologies are so prevalent in students’ lives that it’s tougher to tell when they’re cheating.
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Growth erases need to redistrict Portland elementary schools
Officials say student rolls are balanced and will stay that way even after a new facility opens.
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New USM scholarship to target community college transfers
The program is partly funded by the Hoff Family Foundation, started by a longtime summer resident of York Beach.
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Fund will help to get eyeglasses to students
But the special fund is only a short-term fix to a lack of state money for MaineCare patients.
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School leaders look to recruit China students
Four administrators will head to China on Friday on a nine-day recruiting and cultural mission.
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Restraint review committee will convene in November
Maine’s Department of Education finally sets a date.
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Kittery bridge project to get $20M in federal funds
The aging bridge links the downtowns of Kittery and Portsmouth and offers the only bicycle and pedestrian access across the river.
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Fryeburg to remember grad who left school $15 million
Bion Cram enjoyed making money and generally hated spending it, except when it came to the schools that gave him the foundation to become a wealthy investment banker.
This afternoon, Fryeburg Academy will hold a memorial service for Cram, who left $15 million to the town academy when he died in 2008. He gave $13.5 million to his other alma mater, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he graduated in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
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Disability Rights Center challenges handling of restraint complaints
The state did not investigate in two cases, citing a lack of detail.