College of the Atlantic plans to require students, staff and faculty who will be working and studying on campus in the fall to be vaccinated against COVID-19. School officials cite the broad benefits of a vaccinated campus, including holding gatherings, sharing meals, resuming regular transportation protocols and a return to a more normal academic setting.
Over the past couple of weeks, a number of posters attached to utility poles around Mount Desert Island, promoting safe practices to prevent transmission of COVID-19, have been defaced.
Since last September, more than 8,000 elementary school kids on Mount Desert Island, across Maine and in 17 other states have gone on virtual field trips with park rangers in Acadia.
Schools in the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) will save a combined $399,819 because there will be no increase in the health insurance rate for the coming year.
COVID-19 has disrupted education and challenged school administrators and teachers as never before. But some adjustments that schools have made in response to the pandemic have had quite positive effects, according to Gloria Delsandro, principal of Mount Desert Elementary School.
As currently structured, the Mount Desert Island Regional School System is cumbersome, inefficient and an absolute bear to manage, according to a committee of school board members. Of course, school administrators and board members have known that for years. But now the committee has recommended a specific alternative – the Regional School Unit (RSU) model.
School officials say that if the town’s voters endorse a citizens’ petition asking the Board of Selectmen and School Committee to appoint a committee to draft a plan for Trenton to withdraw from the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (AOS 91), it will have no legal effect.
While it isn’t yet set in stone, the daily schedule for next school year that Mount Desert Island High School Principal Matt Haney presented to the school system board Monday night is the one that he feels strongly is best for students and teachers.
The Perloff Family Fund of the Maine Community Foundation will accept applications for four grant programs that benefit public schools in Maine.
The Trenton School Committee gathered last Thursday at a meeting that was held entirely in executive session to seek legal counsel, according to the meeting’s agenda.
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