Moore attended Bangor Public schools until he was accepted at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he earned varsity letters in ice hockey and baseball. Moore also was a captain and member of a Selects Hockey Academy team that won a Tier I New ...

While some schools stayed even, such as Bangor Township Schools ... in attracting students, Bay City Public Schools Superintendent Janet Greif said. "My belief is that most decisions for schools are made on the soccer field and at the Meijer," Greif ...

Bangor Superintendent of Schools Betsy Webb said the department “proactively assessed” the water quality in all 10 of its schools in the wake of news of elevated lead levels in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere in the country.

For the past 27 years, I have worked as an administrator in Maine’s public schools. I served as a local director for Child Development Services, the agency that serves children with disabilities from birth to age 5; a director of special education in ...

BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor City Council likely will extend its temporary ban on charter schools into next summer in order to hash out a disagreement with the state about how new competition for students would affect the public school system and Bangor ...

... is a troubled history of virtual charter schools in other states and the fact that virtual charter schools have the potential to drain funding from traditional public schools. As the law currently stands, virtual schools would receive the same per ...

Such schools are needed and useful in certain parts of the country, but they might not be filling a need or education gap in a community like Bangor and might hurt the finances and ability to educate of the public schools, councilors said. The council also ...

I know their friends. You can’t fix the whole system either, but here is what you can do: When faced with voting choices, remember that in each of a hundred-thousand public schools across this country sit the treasures of a nation, and that our future is ...

One new proposal by LePage would lift the cap on the number of public charter schools allowed in Maine, make it easier for economically disadvantaged students to transfer to other schools and allow public money to flow to religious schools. A second LePage ...

Giving schools grades brought this reality of an income divide to the forefront of public discussion ... be strong until you take action and try to change it.” According to a Bangor Daily News analysis, Department of Education data show there is a ...