Lewiston, Maineâs second-largest city, adds Muslim holidays to school calendar
By Associated PressUpdated January 11, 2021, 10:23 a.m.
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Worshippers wearing protective face masks offer Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a shrine in Tehran, Iran, on May 24, 2020.Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press
LEWISTON, Maine â Maineâs second-largest city, which is home to a large number of residents from Somalia, is adding two holidays to the school calendar to mark the Muslim holiday known as Eid.
The School Committee voted 8-1 to recognize two festivals as significant events for the cityâs Muslim community.
âWe will no longer have to ask kids to choose between their school and their faith,â Superintendent Jake Langlais told the Sun Journal.
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) Maine's second-largest city, which is home to a large number of residents from Somalia, is adding two holidays to the school calendar to mark the Muslim holiday known as.
"We were seeing a real uptick [in cases] from the end of the vacation." Superintendent Jake Langlais says he has learned of nine new positive cases since Monday.
LEWISTON Administrators are looking into a way to offer filtered YouTube access to students on school devices.
Superintendent Jake Langlais introduced the idea at a School Committee meeting Monday night.
“I believe the benefits outweigh the risks,” he said. “I think there is massive benefit to YouTube’s educational platform.”
The online video platform offers educational material that would greatly enrich remote instruction, he said. Teachers have full access, and students had it until a few years ago.
“The media that is added to YouTube on a daily basis is incredible,” Langlais wrote in a memo to the committee. “Much of the content is educationally purposeful.”
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