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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Next door to Portland school is no place for probation office
Blame a planning process, not the parents who object.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Kate Snyder: I’m prepared to provide Portland with steadying leadership
As a former school board chair who now leads a nonprofit that generates non-taxpayer revenues for public education, I have experience balancing civic aspirations with fiscal discipline.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Portland superintendent’s goals include school construction, sustainable budget
Xavier Botana will also continue to push forward on implementing the district’s strategic plan.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Concerns in Portland school community prompt probation office to move sex offender counseling
A petition calling for the new probation office near Presumpscot Elementary School to move is on hold as corrections officials say they are trying to address concerns.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Teacher shortage stems from lack of respect
How do we attract college graduates to the profession when the committed educators working now continue to be denigrated and underpaid?
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Deering High principal who resigned last week is now superintendent in Brewer
Gregg Palmer, who left the Portland high school as officials looked into a drop in enrollment, started work Tuesday as head of the Brewer School Department.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Portland lauds school bus drivers for ‘setting the tone’
The School Department is finding new ways to make bus driving more attractive to job seekers.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Portland school board approves solar energy project
A student-driven effort to counteract climate change led the board to approve a resolution directing the superintendent to enter into a power purchase agreement with an offsite solar project.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Portland School Board hires 1 firm to design 3 elementary schools
Superintendent of schools also addresses enrollment shift from Deering High to Portland High.