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News Archive - February 2012 
February 29, 2012
Six students from the Portland Public Schools have won honors in Maine’s Scholastic Writing Awards contest. The Southern Maine Writing Project in conjunction with the University of Southern Maine’s Department of Literacy, Language and Culture hosted the contest. Maine students in grades seven through 12 submitted 130 pieces.
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February 29, 2012
The Portland Public Schools’ pre-kindergarten staff will hold a Kindergarten Readiness Night on March 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Longfellow Elementary School, 432 Stevens Avenue. Portland parents whose children are turning five years old on or before October 15, 2012 are invited to attend the free program. A panel of staff members from across the district will answer kindergarten-related questions. ...
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February 29, 2012
The Deering girls' swim team won the Sportsmanship Award at the Class A State Championships in Orono on February 20. The team's head coach is Angie Marcotte.
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February 29, 2012
The Deering boys' basketball team coached by Dan LeGage beat Bonny Eagle High School to win the Class A Western Maine championship on February 25 at the Cumberland County Civic Center.Deering will compete against Hampden Academy in the Class A state championship game on March 3 at the civic center.Thanks to John McLaughlin for this photo taken after the Western Maine championship game.
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February 28, 2012
Portland parents who would like to enroll their children in pre-kindergarten for the 2012-2013 school year may apply to the Portland Public Schools’ free pre-kindergarten program. Children must be four years old on or before October 15 to be eligible for the program, which is a collaborative effort between the school district, the Opportunity Alliance (Cumberland County’s Head Start program),...
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February 28, 2012
Several students from the Portland Public Schools have pieces of art in an exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art that runs February 28 through April 1. In celebration of National Youth Art Month, the museum collaborates with the Maine Art Education Association each year to organize a March exhibition of artwork created by Maine students. This year’s exhibit showcases more than 100 works of art...
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February 28, 2012
Students returning to Ocean Avenue Elementary School (OAES) in Portland after the winter vacation discovered artwork on the walls that looked familiar to some of them. Over the break, workers installed the two historic murals that had decorated the former Nathan Clifford Elementary School.
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February 21, 2012
The public is invited to attend a February 27th workshop with updated information about the search for a new superintendent for the Portland Public Schools. The workshop will take place in the Portland City Council Chambers at Portland City Hall directly after the 5:30 p.m. joint meeting of the council and the Portland Board of Education.
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February 17, 2012
Kiana Sawyer, a student at Portland High School, was one of five winners at the recent Poetry Out Loud Southern Regional competition in Biddeford. Kiana and the other winners will compete against five winners from the northern regional contest in the statewide competition at Bates College in March. About 9,000 Maine students competed for the chance to make it to the state contest.
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February 17, 2012
The Invisible Children Club at Lyman Moore Middle School recently hosted the "Peace and Love, Hippies and Hearts" school dance to raise money for the education of a girl named Allison who lives in Guatemala City. Nearly 200 Moore students dressed in 1960s garb helped ensure that Allison can go to school next year. The dance raised $700. Rob Miller, an eighth grade science teacher at Moore,...
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February 15, 2012
Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS) will hold a career fair, “Thinking Outside the Box,” on March 9 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the school, located at 196 Allen Avenue. The fair is open free of charge to all juniors and seniors who attend either the Portland Public Schools or schools that send students to PATHS. Students should talk with their guidance counselors about attending...
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February 14, 2012
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation (NMEF), the largest charitable organization in New England focused exclusively on education to support student-centered approaches to learning, has awarded a three-year, $5 million grant to support a partnership between the Portland Public Schools and several community-based organizations to design student-centered pathway systems that will better meet the...
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February 14, 2012
Four Portland High School art students have been selected as finalists in the Maine Laptop Technology Initiative (MLTI) 2012/2013 Screensaver Competition. They are among 20 student artists who will have an audience of more than 72,000 students and teachers for their artwork starting this fall.
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February 8, 2012
The Portland Board of Education will hold three forums to solicit input from the community about the hiring of the next Portland Public Schools superintendent. The meeting dates are:
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February 7, 2012
East End Community School is sponsoring the first annual Portland Children’s Film Festival on March 29 to April 1 at five locations throughout the city. The festival includes a contest for elementary school-age film makers. The theme for the student film competition is “Out and About Portland - In and Around My Neighborhood.” Films may include live action, animation, stop-motion and computer-...
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