Portland Public Schools is appealing a state decision that it failed to timely evaluate a student for special education eligibility and ordered the district to pay for private education.
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Portland swears in 2 new school board members
Maya Lena and Ali Ali joined the board, which officially selected Sarah Lentz to continue as chair and Micky Bondo to continue as vice chair.
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School Notebook: Nov. 27
PPS admin earns award for multilingual ed efforts Grace Valenzuela, Portland Public Schools’ director of communications and community partnerships, received a Lifetime Recognition Award from the Northeast chapter of the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education last week. MABE is a nonprofit organization of educators promoting multilingualism and multiculturalism that was formed 50 years ago. Valenzuela […]
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Portland Superintendent’s Notebook: Expanding our capacity to deliver special education services
How will the Portland Public Schools’ new five-year strategic plan impact students in the classroom? That’s a question I will be exploring in my column over the next few months. This month I’m focusing on our special education programming. The five priorities of our strategic plan are: achievement, whole student, people and systems – with […]
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Bowdoin awards Portland Public Schools Wabanaki Studies curriculum creators
Portland Public Schools Wabanaki Studies Coordinator Fiona Hopper and Indigenous Advisor Bridgid Neptune were honored with the Education for the Common Good Award for developing the new curriculum.
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Sarah Lentz chosen to continue leading Portland school board
Abusana ‘Micky’ Bondo will continue to serve as vice chair, pending a formal vote at the board’s next meeting in early December.
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Portland school board OKs $500,000 contract to study retirement issues
The contract with accounting firm BerryDunn will include a person-by-person review of Portland Public Schools employees’ retirement accounts to identify errors.
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Portland English learners quiz government officials in forum
Last week, a panel of local, state and federal representatives answered questions from 75 ESOL students at Portland Adult Education.
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Francophone diplomats address Portland students about multilingual education
Ambassadors from France, Gabon and the Central African Republic visited Deering High School Friday to talk about French-speaking students in Portland, and how to support French language education in the state.
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Former Portland ed tech convicted of abusing student dies in prison
Benjamin Conroy, who had served 2 years of a 22-year sentence, died Monday in a federal prison in New Jersey. The Bureau of Prisons didn’t give a cause of death.