Maine finding the recipe for healthier school lunches

Schools and Education

Published
April 13, 2015

Maine finding the recipe for healthier school lunches

The ingredients are incentives, ideas and collaboration, say officials with a program that has helped the state perform far above the national average.
Published
April 12, 2015

Breeanna Zoidis: ‘I preach to people: … Start at a community college.’

When Breeanna Zoidis of Casco headed off to college, she wanted to get out of Maine. So she enrolled at Elmira College in New York, where tuition, room and board are more than $51,000 a year. Even with a scholarship, two years there put her $40,000 in debt. Today, the older and wiser 24-year-old Zoidis […]
Published
April 12, 2015

Dan Lambert: ‘You’ve just got to have a plan’

It started with a scholarship and the kernel of a plan. Dan Lambert had already been studying machining for two years as a high school student at the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology, and as a graduating senior faced a crossroads about what to do next. He knew he wanted an engineering degree. The question […]
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April 12, 2015

Lahana Palencia: Choosing SMCC ‘was definitely a financial decision’

Lahana Palencia was like many graduating high school students: planning to go to college, not sure what she wanted to study and scared of racking up a lot of student debt while she figured it all out. “I graduated from (Pittsfield) high school an honors student. But I was like, I don’t know what I […]
Published
April 12, 2015

Low cost, great potential add to Maine community colleges’ appeal

Wary of debt, students pursuing higher education turn to one option that can be practically free, where they can learn a technical trade or use the school as a steppingstone on the path to a four-year degree.

Published
April 12, 2015

More students using community college to save money on a four-year college education

Wary of debt, students pursuing higher education turn to one option that can be practically free, where they can learn a technical trade or use the school as a steppingstone on the path to a four-year degree.
Published
April 9, 2015

Education panel rejects bills to make college more affordable for Mainers

Lawmakers say they want to focus on increasing overall education funding instead of supporting individual programs.
Published
April 8, 2015

Brunswick teacher accused of discussing religious belief

After the ACLU complains, the district says it was not part of the science lesson, just an ill-advised response to a fifth-grader's question.
Published
April 8, 2015

Hallowell-based RSU 2 budget would hike property taxes by 4 percent

The budget in Monmouth, Richmond, Farmingdale, Hallowell and Dresden schools is more conservative this year than in years past.
Published
April 8, 2015

Proposed rewrite of ‘No Child’ law shifts power to states

The plan would add flexibility on measuring school performance, but other parts of the troubled federal law would remain.