Also, women coffee experts converge at Coffee By Design, Lobster Shack at Two Lights reopens and a new brunch restaurant coming to Portland.
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Portland Superintendent’s Notebook: Pandemic milestone is something to smile about
This week, almost two years to the day that we shut our doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask at Portland Public Schools became optional for our staff and students. This is a milestone moment for us, so I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight this and other changes in our health […]
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Drop in state funding for Portland schools expected to contribute to higher taxes
Superintendent Xavier Botana is scheduled to present a proposed school district budget on Tuesday.
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Casco Bay High School Academic and HOWLs High Honors & Honors
First trimester 2021/2022 school year
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School Notebook: March 9
Student skaters Lincoln Middle School names new principal Marisa Ayala, an educator with leadership and bilingual teaching experience with the Boston and Chicago public schools, will be the new leader of Lincoln Middle School in Portland, effective July 1. Ayala is currently an assistant principal with the Boston Public Schools. “Marisa is an exceptional trilingual […]
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Portland schools not ready to lift mask mandate despite change in guidelines
The largest district in Maine is diverging from new state – and now federal – recommendations and plans to keep masks for the foreseeable future.
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School Notebook: Feb. 23
Portland teacher selected for Presidential Award for Excellence A Portland educator who won a highly prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching credited the honor to a teacher who influenced her when she was a student. Talbot Community School literacy coach Cindy Soule, Maine’s 2021 Teacher of the Year, and Deer Isle-Stonington […]
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School Notebook: Feb. 16
Falmouth student chosen for Senate page program Lucy Taylor of Falmouth is serving in the U.S. Senate Page Program in Washington, D.C., in the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Taylor is a junior at Falmouth High School and an active member of the Falmouth Civil Rights Team. She also volunteers as a High School […]
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Tradition or relic? School snow days face an uncertain future
Snow days are a beloved tradition, but are they needed in the age of remote learning? Maine school districts have come to different conclusions.
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Committee recommends denying Portland request for consolidated high school
The full Maine State Board of Education will hear the district’s request to have the project considered for state funding next month and weigh whether to follow the construction committee’s recommendation.