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The center will house research and workforce training programs.
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For the first time in five years, the University of Southern Maine expects to finish this fiscal year with a positive budget balance — without using reserve or outside funding.
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Maine's Community College System will receive $75 million to help train over 70,000 workers across the state.
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Voters in districts in Lewiston, Westbrook, Wales and Oxford Hills all voted down school budget proposals.
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According to the latest edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, the number of children in poverty in Maine declined from 2019 to 2022, and more parents found secure employment. However Maine continues to fall behind other New England states.
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According to the Maine Department of Education, more than 87% of high school seniors graduated last year. Rates had fallen significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, but have now nearly returned to their pre-pandemic high.
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The Maine State Library said on its website that it recently awarded a contract for interlibrary delivery services to STAT Courier, but that another bidder has appealed the decision.
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Maine boasts nearly two dozen Boys and Girls clubs. And as youth face increasingly dire challenges, many clubs are rising to meet those needs. In Waterville, the Boys and Girls Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary and it’s a prime example of the ways the nonprofit can support kids and families in Maine.
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Sweetser says that reimbursement has been unable to keep up with the costs to provide mental health services to students at more than 100 schools across the state.
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At the ceremony, 21 men graduated with associate and bachelor's degrees in liberal studies. The graduates and their friends and family said the prison education program has changed their lives.
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His contract had been set to expire next year, but it's now extended through June of 2027.
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The current chancellor of the UMaine System Dannel Malloy will help lead an international committee advocating against the death penalty. While governor of Connecticut in 2015, Malloy signed legislation abolishing capital punishment in the state.