Teachers union files labor law complaint; board chair resigns
Kristi Losquadro, the school system board’s chair and lead contract negotiator, resigned from the Bar Harbor School Committee.
Education
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Webster steps in as acting principal
Heather Webster, assistant principal of Conners Emerson School, will serve as acting principal while Principal Barbara Neilly is out on leave.
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Tremont starts school year with COVID case
The first day of school brought rain, new prekindergarten students to Pemetic Elementary School and a confirmed case of COVID-19.
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Eric Hann: an odd path to operations manager
Eric Hann has followed an interesting career path to his new job as operations manager for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System.
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School committee to ask town for $3 million
The Conners Emerson School Committee unanimously voted to advance a $3 million school bond for placement on November’s town meeting ballot.
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School starts without new teacher contract
Teachers in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System are going back to the classroom without a new collective bargaining agreement.
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School administrators playing musical chairs, four principals get new posts
There has been a major reshuffling of administrators in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System.
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Face masks required in new school year
Students, teachers and everyone else in school buildings will be required to wear a mask to protect against the spread of COVID-19 once classes start in the Mount Desert Island Regional School system on Thursday, Sept. 2.
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Online talk explores addiction and genetics
Vivek Kumar will give an online talk Wednesday, Aug. 25 at 5:30p.m., called The Genetic Basis of Addiction, where he will discuss the neurobiological and genetic basis of addiction.
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Salamander could hold answer to regeneration questions
The first experiment demonstrating the capacity of an axolotl limb to regenerate was conducted almost 250 years ago by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1768.