The Brunswick Democrat has long championed pushing Maine’s high school start time to 8:30 a.m., saying that pediatric research shows teens need more sleep than early school start times allow.
Riley Board
Staff Writer
Riley covers education for the Press Herald. Before moving to Portland, she spent two years in Kenai, Alaska, reporting on local government, schools and natural resources for the public radio station KDLL as part of the Report for America program. Riley originally hails from Sarasota, Florida, and is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, where she served as the editor-in-chief of the college’s student newspaper, The Campus. She has interned at the Burlington Free Press, and at the Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Magazine in Washington, D.C. Outside of work, Riley is passionate about roller skating, cooking and her cat, Edgar.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Maine educators ask Legislature to increase teachers’ minimum salary
A bill before the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee would raise the minimum teacher salary in Maine from $40,000 to $50,000 over the next 5 years.
advertisement
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
South Portland will give voters a choice: Natural grass, synthetic turf or neither
After approving a substitute motion Monday, the school district now plans to give voters a choice between a $4.3 million natural grass athletic complex or a $5.1 million version with a synthetic field — or to oppose both options.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
UMF researchers want to know, how smart is your cat?
The Maine Cat Lab at the University of Maine at Farmington is conducting the first-ever international study of cat intelligence.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Maine schools told to remove DEI or lose federal funding
A letter from the U.S. Department of Education instructs states to remove race-based diversity, equity and inclusion programs from schools within 14 days or lose federal funding.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
‘Being the students Bowdoin wants us to be’: Organizers reflect on Palestine encampment
Many students, faculty and alumni have supported the 8 students who were suspended, saying the protest touched on the values Bowdoin gave them to speak out for a cause they care about.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Proposed bill could help students with intellectual disabilities go to college
The bill died in the appropriations committee last session but some Maine families say it would make a big difference for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities and autism.
Posted inNews, Schools and Education
Portland schools, teaching unions plan to create student discipline task force
The task force would draft a proposal for a progressive discipline policy for the district by May.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Proposed bill would give Maine cities first chance to buy university buildings for sale
The bill is a response to the sale process of the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, but a University of Maine System official said no municipalities have ever submitted bids for university buildings.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Bowdoin students conclude pro-Palestine protest, call action an ‘immense success’
The college issued suspensions to eight students over their encampment in the college’s student union, which organizers concluded Monday evening after reaching an ‘understanding’ with administrators.