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 | Portland Public Schools’ Students Excel Musically Posted on 12/23/2015 Four members of the Deering-Portland-Casco Bay High School Orchestra have been accepted into this year's Allstate Honors Festival Orchestra. Also, another orchestra member, PHS senior Moses Small, has been selected as an intern with the Portland Symphony Orchestra.
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 | Peaks Island School Embracing Expeditionary Learning Model Posted on 12/23/2015 |
 | JMG Students at PHS Raise Funds to Help Children’s Hospital Posted on 12/22/2015 |
 | District Hires Chemical Hygiene, Safety & Training Officer Posted on 12/22/2015 |
 | Lincoln Mentor Group Helps Students Navigate Middle School Posted on 12/22/2015 |
 | Riverton Civil Rights Team Leading the Way Posted on 12/21/2015 Riverton Elementary School’s Civil Rights Team is emerging as a model in Maine at a time when the issue of civil rights is the subject of intense debate nationwide and developing into a key issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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 | CBHS Seniors 'Become Adults' with College March Posted on 12/18/2015 |
 | Food Drive & Big Donation for Moore Food Pantry/Care Closet Posted on 12/17/2015 Last year, Lyman Moore Middle School started a food pantry to help fellow students and their families grappling with food insecurity and poverty. This year, the food pantry has a new name – the “Care Closet” – and it recently got a $2,500 donation from Evergreen Credit Union. It also will benefit from a food drive on Saturday, Dec. 19, which will help ensure students don’t go hungry over the holiday break.
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 | OT Tracey Falla Now President of Maine Occupational Therapy Association Posted on 12/17/2015 |
| Statement from Interim Superintendent Jeanne Crocker Posted on 12/16/2015 |
 | King Eighth-Graders to Showcase Environmental PSAs Posted on 12/16/2015 |
 | CBHS Seniors to March to Drum of College Aspirations Dec. 18 Posted on 12/15/2015 |
 | Presumpscot Students’ Lobster ABC Book Is ‘Exemplary’ Posted on 12/14/2015 “The Amazing World of Lobsters,” an ABC book about lobsters created by Presumpscot Elementary School third-graders last year under the guidance of teachers Suzanne Keller and Heidi Nichols, has been chosen as “exemplary student work” by EL Education’s Models of Excellence team. The student work will be included in EL Education's The Center for High Quality Student Work.
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 | Lyseth Students, Staff to Give Back to Beloved ‘Foster Grannies’ Posted on 12/14/2015 |
 | Two PHS Students To Be Interns for Sen. Angus King Posted on 12/10/2015 Portland High School students Oona Mackinnon Hoban and Eamonn Dundon have won internships with the office of U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine. King announced this week that the two students will serve as part-time interns in his Scarborough office.
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 | Holiday Sale to Benefit Portland Education Foundation – and PPS! Posted on 12/10/2015 |
 | Board Sends Locally Funded Hall School Options to Council Posted on 12/09/2015 |
 | School Board Appoints New Chair; Holds Inauguration Posted on 12/08/2015 Marnie Morrione was voted in Dec. 7 as the new chair of the Portland Board of Public Education for the coming year. The board also held an inauguration for three recently reelected board members and for four new student representatives to the board.
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 | Families Invited to Get To Know CBHS, a ‘Deeper Learning’ School Posted on 12/08/2015 |
| Board to Vote on Sending Hall School Locally Funded Options to Council Posted on 12/07/2015 |
 | King Students Earn Key to City, Praise, Thanks for Climate March Posted on 12/04/2015 |
 | Reiche Wins Teacher-Powered Schools Award Posted on 12/03/2015 Reiche Community School and the Portland Public Schools recently won an award for the collaboration between the school district, the teachers’ union and the school in the process of transforming Reiche into a teacher-led school.
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 | DHS Students Hosting Dialogue Related to World Refugee Crisis Posted on 12/03/2015 |
 | King Students Cite Reasons/Goals for Dec. 4 Climate March Posted on 12/03/2015 |
 | CBHS Students Rise to the Occasion to Help Africans in Need Posted on 12/02/2015 Casco Bay High School tenth-graders just finished an “Africa Rising” expedition. The students chose a country in Africa to study, then researched to find out how they could aid that specific country's rise. The students then raised $2,800 at a Halloween Dance to donate to projects to aid African countries.
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 | Community Invited to School Health Advisory Committee Meeting Posted on 12/02/2015 Parents, community members and staff with an interest in wellness at the Portland Public Schools are invited to a School Health Advisory Committee meeting on Monday, Dec. 7. The public also will get an opportunity to meet Jane McLucas, the district’s new food service director, and to hear wellness updates from school-based Wellness Teams.
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 | Deering to Present “Shrek The Musical” Dec. 11, 12 and 13 Posted on 12/02/2015 The Deering Players will present “Shrek The Musical” at Deering High School, 370 Stevens Avenue. The production is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 film “Shrek” and a 1990 book “Shrek!” by William Steig.
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 | Sampling of Shakespeare Play Makes Lincoln Students Want More Posted on 12/02/2015 |
 | Portland Adult Education Wins FAME Award! Posted on 12/01/2015 |
 | CBHS Presents “Chicago” on Dec. 4 and 5 Posted on 12/01/2015 |