Lana covers education for the Portland Press Herald. She joins the Press Herald from VTDigger, where she covered Chittenden County, Vermont’s population center. Previously she was a Report for America fellow in Mendocino County, covering environmental news for a digital outlet and a public radio station. She also reported on the environment for digital news outlet, WhoWhatWhy. In her spare time Lana enjoys hiking with her Goldendoodle, Rigby, running, surfing and baking.
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
Maine’s educators are exhausted
Teachers, administrators and a social worker from across the state told us about the unprecedented challenges they faced during the school year that mercifully ended last week.
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PublishedJune 13, 2022
Racial disparity in Portland schools’ discipline mirrors national patterns
The Portland school district reported last week that Black students are disproportionately punished compared to other groups. The same is true around the country.
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PublishedJune 5, 2022
National culture wars come to Maine school districts
Districts feel the heat after the Maine Republican Party advocates for a ban on critical race theory and discussion of gender in public school classrooms.
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PublishedMay 22, 2022
Furor followed Malloy from Connecticut to Maine
Malloy was once the least popular governor in the country and some in Connecticut are still upset about his reforms of that state’s higher education system.
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PublishedMay 16, 2022
Penn State administrator named next president of USM
Jacqueline Edmonson, current chancellor and chief academic officer at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will start in her job on July 1.
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PublishedMay 13, 2022
University of Southern Maine faculty senate votes no confidence in chancellor
USM faculty cited the departure of 3 system presidents within the year and a lack of faculty input in important University of Maine System decisions.
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PublishedMay 10, 2022
Portland schools will require masks starting Thursday
Maine now has the fourth highest COVID-19 infection rate among states as the average daily case count has declined this week.
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PublishedMay 5, 2022
Maine hospitals report spike in patients with COVID-19 as risk rises
Cumberland County and the midcoast were reclassified by the U.S. CDC as being at ‘high’ risk for COVID-19 on Thursday, the same day the state saw the number of hospitalized patients with the virus increase to 193.
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PublishedApril 22, 2022
Maine school officials watching COVID trends as students return from spring break
With classes scheduled to resume Monday, Maine is seeing case numbers rise and hospitalizations fluctuate.
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PublishedApril 20, 2022
Maine resident dies from tick-borne illness
A Waldo County resident died from Powassan, a rare tick-borne virus, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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