Officials: The Readfield school will use fully remote learning until Oct. 13.
Maine Department of Education
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Augusta teachers receive social, emotional training as students return amid pandemic
Licensed clinical social workers have provided training to help with school-related stress.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Head Start urges Maine’s senators to OK $1.7 billion in emergency relief
The preschool program has served families throughout the pandemic. Now it needs help keeping our most at-risk children safe.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Most teachers are likely to return to classrooms but worried about health and safety, survey shows
Parents said they are likely to send their children back to school but are skeptical of students’ abilities to meet health and safety requirements, according to new survey data from the Maine Department of Education.
Posted inThe Forecaster
School Notebook: Aug. 5
Falmouth Fire-EMS awards inaugural scholarship Falmouth Fire-EMS awarded a $1,000 scholarship on July 22 to Isabella Roy, a 2020 graduate of Falmouth High School. Roy is the first recipient of the annual scholarship, created to recognize graduating high school seniors living in the Falmouth community who plan to continue their post-secondary education in the field […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine school plans must proceed with caution
Districts have the ‘green light’ from the state to reopen – if they can meet strict public health guidelines.
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Maine receives $17 million in CARES funding to pilot remote learning models
The federal grant funding announced this week as part of the CARES Act will go to developing and implementing new remote learning models.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Superintendents welcome guidelines, see parents’ support as key to reopening
Three administrators in southern Maine say the state’s blueprint will inform how schools approach reopening in the fall.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Getting students back to school should be the country’s top priority
We have to dedicate ourselves to doing the right thing elsewhere, all over the country and all at once, in a way we haven’t yet really pulled off during the pandemic.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Cost of reopening schools during pandemic could exceed $300 million
Maine’s education commissioner tells lawmakers that schools face a heavy lift in procuring personal protective equipment, expanding bus fleets and filling vacant positions.