Both will take office Dec. 2.
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Portland school buses to be fixed in voluntary recall
PORTLAND — Nine of Portland Public Schools’ buses will have remediation work to fix an issue with seats as soon as next month. The work comes as part of a voluntary recall, announced last month by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Seats on some ThomasBuilt buses have insufficient impact absorption in the event of […]
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Portland High School placed on lockdown after gun report
PORTLAND — Portland High School was placed on lockdown for less than an hour Tuesday, Oct. 22, after the Portland Regional Communication Center received a 911 call reporting there was someone in the school with a gun. The school resource officer put school into lockdown at 10:20 a.m., police said. The school was reopened at […]
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Portland nomination papers available for November elections
Four potential challengers already in the hunt to unseat Mayor Ethan Strimling.
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Portland pre-K program adding 2 classes this fall
To meet its goal of offering at least 140 new seats of pre-K over the next five years, Portland schools will start with classrooms at Rowe Elementary and East End Community School.
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NYC teacher finishes first year in one-room schoolhouse on Cliff Island
Jenny Baum teaches the island’s two students and becomes a beloved member of the community.
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Portland hires new assistant superintendent of schools
Aaron Townsend is taking over from Jeanne Crocker, who is retiring at the end of the school year.
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Portland cost-cutting commission rejects combining some schools in reorganization
The panel recommends instead that the district consider moving adult education and central administration out of a building in the Bayside neighborhood and into unused school space.
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Portland school board votes to double pre-kindergarten program over 5 years
The expanded program is expected to cost $3 million and offer full-day classes to about 260 children, which is about half of the 4-year-olds in the city.
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Proposal to cut costs by reorganizing Portland schools is ‘deeply flawed,’ critics say
About a dozen speakers, many of them teachers, tell a study commission that the changes would be disruptive for students, ignore school culture, and limit academic and extracurricular activities.