Education

While Maine will continue to meet its obligation to pay 55% of the cost of K-12 education under Governor Janet Mills' budget proposal for 2023-24, a milestone first achieved last year, many superintendents are still not happy with the state subsidy amounts for schools in their districts.

The lack of financial accountability for so-called "private" high schools in Maine that actually receive most of their monies through public funding is troubling to some public education leaders and legislators, who point to financial abuses at private schools that have ranged from thousands of...

During the September 14 meeting of the Calais School Committee, the exceptionally large number of attendees, both in person and on Zoom, expressed strong opinions on the new restroom policy at Calais High School.

Lubec has seven more students than you know about," said AOS 77 Superintendent Kenneth Johnson, opening the April 7 school budget workshop, which was attended by all members of the school committee...

With students returning to classes in less than a week, school boards in this area have been wrestling with how to reopen safely, as those health and safety decisions can be made on the local level this year.

With the COVID 19 delta variant on the rise, educational institutions in Washington and Charlotte counties are implementing various policies regarding masking, remote learning and a new process called pool testing as they get ready to welcome students back to the classroom.