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PPS in the Press

Below is a sampling of media coverage highlighting the great students, staff, schools and programs of the Portland Public Schools:

dinosaur bone fossils

This March 24, 2025, Portland Press Herald story features 1971 Portland High School graduate Sam Rosenthal, who has donated his collection of over 250 fossils – including teeth from a prehistoric shark and fossilized dinosaur bones like the horn of a triceratops – to the high school to create the new Rosenthal Museum of Natural History at the school.

Read More about Fossil collection of Portland High alum has new digs at school
STEM Expo Channel 8 image

On March 21, 2025, WMTW Channel 8 TV covered the Portland Public Schools’ 11th annual STEM Expo – a three-day event that PPS puts on each year in partnership with EnviroLogix. The reporter talked to students about the STEM Expo, which is an opportunity to showcase the STEM learning occurring in Portland Public Schools’ classrooms and expand students’ STEM knowledge.

Read More about Portland middle and high school students explore STEM at annual expo
Superintendent Ryan Scallon photo

Superintendent Ryan Scallon's February 19, 2025, column in The Forecaster is part of series he's writing about how priorities in the district's new Strategic Plan impact students in the classroom. This month's topic is the People priority in the plan.

Read More about Portland Superintendent’s Notebook: People priority: Fostering a strong, inclusive, and supportive staff culture
Jessica Marino, speech language pathologist, Presumpscot Elementary School

A story from WGME-TV, Channel 13 on Feb. 10, 2025 features Jessica Marino, a speech language pathologist at Presumpscot Elementary School, who loves her work supporting students' language development, speech fluency, and overall communication skills. "Communication is fundamental to really everything we do," Marino said. "Not just learning, our social interactions, our relationships, just the way we engage with the world. So, communication disorders can really impact that."
 

Read More about Speech delays surge post-pandemic, but who's left to listen in Maine?