News Archive - March 2012 
March 28, 2012
The Portland Public Schools seeks one parent and one student from each of the city’s four public high schools to join an advisory council for the Pathways to Success initiative. Funded by a $5 million grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Pathways to Success will implement new models of student-centered learning in Portland’s high schools. A parent and a student from Portland High...
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March 28, 2012
Portland High juniors Thina Thach and Megan Hudson won second and third place, respectively, in the Foreign Language Association of Maine (FLAME) poster contest.Megan’s pastel poster featured a map of Italy and the Latin phrase “Lingua mappa ad cultam.” Thina’s acrylic poster featured three symbolic aspects of Roman culture and the Latin phrase “Via ad cultam."Posters were judged on creativity,...
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March 28, 2012
Sixth graders at Portland’s Lyman Moore Middle School will host a U.S. naturalization ceremony on April 6 at 10 a.m. at the school, located at 171 Auburn Street. Thirty-eight area residents from 19 countries of origin will be sworn in as citizens. Students at Casco Bay High School (CBHS) will join Moore students at the ceremony. Both schools are integrating the event into their curricula.
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March 23, 2012
Kiana Sawyer, a sophomore at Portland High School, was named runner-up in the Maine Poetry Out Loud competition at Bates College on March 23. MPBN televised the competition live.Kiana came in second out of the 10 students competing in the finals. She won $100, and the Portland High School library will receive $200 to purchase poetry books. About 8,000 Maine students began the competition in...
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March 23, 2012
The Portland School Board will hold a hearing on the Finance Committee’s proposed FY 2013 budget on April 3 at 7 p.m. in Room 250, Casco Bay High School, 196 Allen Avenue. There will be additional opportunity for public comment on the budget on April 10 (time to be announced) in the same location. The School Board is expected to vote on the budget that night.
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March 23, 2012
The Portland school district seeks input on new, student-centered learning models that are being considered for Deering High School and Portland High School as part of the Pathways to Success initiative. The public is invited to learn more about the models under consideration at informational sessions on April 4 and May 2. Here is the schedule for the sessions:
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March 21, 2012
Sixth grade students in technology education classes at Lyman Moore Middle School completed a service learning project with the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland.Students made and sold weighted hula hoops to raise money for the Animal Refuge League and for Lyman Moore's Wellness Team. They presented a $250 check to Kathleen Fobear, the League's humane education director.
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March 21, 2012
Seventh graders from Lincoln Middle School are embarking on a three-day trip to Ferry Beach Ecology School (FBES) in Saco on March 26-28. The field trip is part of a multi-year project, “Science and Ecology: Live and Unplugged!,” that will provide hands-on learning for all Lincoln students throughout the spring semester. The students will be immersed in environmental education and become “...
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March 20, 2012
The winners of 2012 Maine Principals’ Association awards from the Portland Public Schools are: Isaac Jaegerman, Portland High School; Aaron “Ari” Hymoff, Deering High School, and Austin Kessler, Casco Bay High School (CBHS). The award is given in recognition of a high school senior's academic achievement and citizenship. The three Portland award winners and their principals are invited to an...
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March 20, 2012
East End Community School is sponsoring the first Portland Children’s Film Festival on March 29 through April 1 at several locations throughout the city. The festival will feature local, national and international children’s films and workshops.
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March 20, 2012
The fashion marketing program at Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS) presents “Collection 2012,” a fashion show featuring original student garments, on March 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditorium. Tickets ($5 adults/ $3 students) will be sold at the door.
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March 20, 2012
Due to a family emergency, the Portland Public Schools' All-City Orchestra Night that had been scheduled for March 27 at Portland High School has been postponed until later in the spring. The date will be announced as soon as possible.
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March 18, 2012
The Portland Public Schools’ food service does not purchase ground beef products containing Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), popularly known as “pink slime.”The district buys precooked beef burgers from a national company that does not use LFTB. In addition, growing portions of Portland’s ground beef purchases are from local companies committed to natural and sustainable farming practices.
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March 16, 2012
Lyseth Elementary School became a “sea of green” on March 16, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society that was organized by fifth grade student Luke Hill. Luke’s mother, Amy MacDuffie Hill, died of cancer in January. Luke promised to donate a nickel of his own money to the American Cancer Society for every Lyseth student who arrived at school on March...
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March 14, 2012
Lucy Bauer, an honors Latin poetry student at Portland High School, has won first place in the Maine Classics Association of New England (CANE) writing contest.Lucy, a junior, submitted an essay titled “Gladiatrice”, which juxtaposed a creative story of a female gladiator with supporting quotations from Juvenal’s "Satire VI." Entrants are judged on creativity, correct usage of the English...
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