PPS Community Newsletter - Sept. 5, 2024

Spring 2024 Results: Last spring, Portland Public Schools students in grades 3-8 and grade 10 took a state standardized test called the Maine Through Year Assessment in math and reading. On Thursday, Sept. 12, the district will share students’  individual scores from that spring test with their families via ReachMyTeach.

Join us on Saturday, Sept. 21, in celebrating the completion of our Buildings for our Future (BFOF) renovation projects at Presumpscot, Longfellow and Reiche elementary schools!

School has started and we are asking drivers to respect the flashing lights of school buses. Student safety depends on it!

Every week, numerous cars pass our buses when the flashing lights are on – this includes when buses are stopped in front of our schools and when they are picking up/dropping off kids in their neighborhoods. 

Computers were still pretty new in 1980, but Portland High School was making sure even then that students knew how to use this new technology.

Sept. 5 was the first day of school for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. To quell any first-day nervousness, Reiche Elementary School held an open house and practice bus ride for kindergartners on Sept. 4.

Here’s a message from Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG): “We're recruiting multilingual volunteers—Bus Ambassadors—to teach new Mainers how to use public transportation.

What initiatives does ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) funding support? How does ESSA rate schools? How can families give input on their state’s ESSA plan? Get engaged in this discussion and learn the answers to all of these questions, and more, in this Parent University event on Sept. 18.

Join us at Presumpscot Elementary School on Sept. 24 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. for an informative workshop led by University of New England professor Dr. Audrey Bartholomew.