Category: Education

The chair of the Maine School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors will finish his term after a wave of criticism and support regarding his comments about the influence of conservative activists on the district.

One of the three candidates on Harpswell’s ballot for two seats on the school board has withdrawn, while a write-in candidate has entered the race.

Maine School Administrative District 75 Superintendent Steven Connolly will resign at the end of the school year. The departure of the district’s top administrator sets up the sixth transition in the role in five years.

Harpswell Coastal Academy is offering to sell its campus back to the town as it prepares to shutter at the end of the school year. The offer was a condition of the property’s sale from the town to the nonprofit Harpswell Coastal Academy Inc. in 2015.

The Maine Administrators of Career and Technical Education recognized Harpswell resident Jean Palmer-Smith last month as 2022’s Career and Technical Education Teacher of the Year.

Harpswell Coastal Academy will close at the end of the 2022-23 school year, following the Maine Charter School Commission’s decision not to renew HCA’s charter.

Maine School Administrative District 75 has 23 vacancies for special education staff and 10 for bus drivers, a shortage the superintendent expects to grow worse.

Harpswell Coastal Academy students and alumni, along with parents and other supporters, made their case for renewing the school’s state charter during a public hearing before the Maine Charter School Commission on Thursday, Sept. 29.

Harpswell Coastal Academy hopes the school community will turn out for a public hearing on Thursday, Sept. 29, to support its application for charter renewal.

Brunswick’s Region 10 Technical High School will begin the school year under the leadership of a new director and superintendent, Shawn Chabot. Chabot joins Region 10 with more than 25 years of experience in Maine schools.

Brunswick’s Region 10 Technical High School serves a complementary role to four area high schools — students go to their “sending school” to learn subjects like English and math, then come to Region 10 to study auto repair or train as a nursing assistant. But an upcoming study will investigate whether Region 10 has what it takes to become a “comprehensive” high school, where students could enroll full time and learn both “academic” and technical subjects.

Maine School Administrative District 75 Board of Directors member Linda Hall (second from left)...

Frank Wright, of Harpswell Neck, is the new chair of the Maine School Administrative District 75...