The student, whose name has not been released, is charged with Class C terrorizing, a felony charge because the threat he is accused of making sent buildings — in this case, all of Bangor’s public schools ... to get off track, and teenagers ...

For the first time in the three years since Maine Public Television started the statewide High ... It’s joining two other Bangor-area high schools, Bangor High School and Hampden Academy, in the televised quiz show’s third season that will premiere ...

Bangor students’ performance on the state’s standardized English and math tests has been trending up over the last three years as student scores statewide have generally stagnated. More than 55 percent of Bangor public ... schools are on track and ...

Snow that began falling overnight will continue until Wednesday evening, potentially covering the southern Maine with half a foot of accumulation and prompting a handful of schools to close. While Bangor public schools ... Augusta is on track to receive ...

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 ...

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 ...