Currents in Education
THEY'RE BACK! Coastal Ridge Elementary School bid farewell last week to two of its Odyssey of the Mind teams, which won top honors in Maine earlier this spring, as they headed off to Michigan for the OM World Finals. The students, their volunteer coaches and Horizons teacher Michele Freitag are now back in town after spending almost a week working on challenging problems, performing their own skits before huge crowds and meeting other OM-ers from around the world. Pictured here are just a few of those local students and coaches during the event. Be watching The Independent for more on the teams and their trip to the finals.
Photo by Michele Freitag
With the deadline fast approaching for the Maine Legislature to adopt the state's fiscal 2008 budget, the details of a mandated school consolidation plan still remain to be seen.
After 20 years of service to the York School Department, Coastal Ridge Elementary School Principal Jane Stephenson will retire at the end of the current school year.
Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins have announced they are currently accepting applications from Maine high school students for nominations to be considered for an appointment by the four United States service academies.
York High School senior Gene Jones said that there’s been times he's chosen to take a class for the primary reason that Jack Hoyt was going to be the teacher.
Ongoing
This June, for the third consecutive year, the all-volunteer York Education Foundation will present grants to local teachers who have come up with innovative ideas to enrich the classroom experience for their students.
