The mistake in how money paid to independent schools for public school students is calculated was discovered earlier this year by Maine's education department and dates back to 2016.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily paused millions of dollars in federal funding to the University of Maine system, the school said Tuesday, as the agency reviews ...

Even as the economy teeters, the district can deliver on new schools. St. Joseph built Central High School, Hyde School and Lindbergh School during the depths of the Great Depression. There may ...

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POLAND, Maine — The Maine Fire Marshal's Office (FMO) is asking for the public's help after determining that three fires at the Elan School in Poland over the last five months were arson. The first ...

BANGOR, Maine — Basketball season is in full swing, and for some of Maine’s top high school players, that means a chance to showcase their talent at the Maine McDonald’s All-Star Game at Husson ...

according to Bath schools Treasurer Joel Parker. The proposed budget, introduced by Gov. Mike DeWine in February, phases in the remainder of the so-called Cupp-Patterson school funding formula.

Eleven third- and fourth-grade students were taken to the hospital on Thursday as a precautionary measure after reporting "respiratory distress," despite the fact that investigators could not ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Eleven students were taken to the hospital after they fell ill while in the cafeteria of a school in a coastal town in Maine on Thursday morning. Emergency crews responding to a ...