School support staffs’ contracts standardized
When school starts next month, ed techs and other support staff in all the schools in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System will be working under the same contract – more or less.
Education
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Neilly is retired but her legacy endures
Conners Emerson School has just finished its first year since 1991 without Barb Neilly as principal.
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Dirigo Reads program to add over 1,000 students next year
Dirigo Reads, a program that aims to give a book to every Maine first grader each month during the school year by 2025, is adding 36 participating schools next year.
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UMaine undergrad makes discovery about browntail moth caterpillars
Preliminary findings from the University of Maine suggest that mature browntail moth caterpillars also may be able to subsist on coniferous trees.
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Two teachers share Golden Apple Award
Lacey Schlag, fourth-grade teacher at Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor, and Tonya Prentice, middle school science teacher at Tremont Consolidated School, are the 2022 recipients of the MDI Rotary Club’s Golden Apple Award for excellence in education.
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Pemetic Elementary School hires new principal
Christine Gray of Ohio was selected last month to succeed Michael Zboray as principal of Pemetic Elementary School.
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Harbor House receives child literacy grant
Of the 65 schools, school districts and nonprofit organizations in Maine that received this grant, five were in Hancock County, and Harbor House was the only recipient on Mount Desert Island.
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Free community college offer for adult learners
The Maine Department of Education’s Office of Adult Education has launched a campaign to encourage adult learners to complete the HiSET, Maine’s high school equivalency test.
