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Maine Academy of Natural Sciences graduates 21 in Threshold program Friday
Alternative high school program allows students to finish their diploma requirements while working independently for part of the week.
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Becky Dennison, dean of students at Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, addresses the 2021 graduating seniors who completed the Threshold program Friday in the Hinckley area of Fairfield.
Taylor Abbott/Morning Sentinel)
FAIRFIELD As they made their way to their seats, clad in a cap and gown, marching to the beat of “Pomp and Circumstance,” the 2021 graduates from Maine Academy of Natural Sciences’ Threshold program reflected on the challenges that they faced and the strides they made.
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Maine Arts Academy students board a bus Tuesday before leaving school following the first day back to class at the Sidney campus. The school is among a handful locally to report a decline in students filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid ahead of the May 1 Maine State Grant deadline.
Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Local school districts are making a final push for families to submit their Free Application for Federal Student Aid applications before the Maine State Grant deadline of May 1. Families can apply after May 1, but will not be eligible for the grant, which provides up to $1,500 in need-based aid.
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Central Maine schools encourage families to fill out FAFSA applications by Saturday’s Maine State Grant deadline
A majority of schools in the state are seeing fewer seniors than last year fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
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Maine Arts Academy students board a bus Tuesday before leaving school following the first day back to class at the Sidney campus. The school is among a handful locally to report a decline in students filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid ahead of the May 1 Maine State Grant deadline.
Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Central Maine Schools taking advantage of rapid COVID-19 testing
Erskine Academy, Vassalboro Community School, Maine Central Institute, MSAD 53 and the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences among the local schools using Abbott rapid antigen tests.
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SOUTH CHINA The coronavirus pandemic continues to run rampant across the state, but a handful of local schools are participating in an increased testing effort to help stop the spread.
The Abbott rapid antigen COVID-19 tests are made for individuals exhibiting at least one of the most common COVID-19 symptoms or two of the less common symptoms. The testing process involves self-swabbing the lower portion of one’s nostrils and is processed on site by adding six drops of a liquid reagent to the swab on a test card. The tests are free of cost to students and staff.
Dozens of Maine schools now using COVID rapid tests for students and staff
The Maine CDC has distributed more than 4,000 rapid tests to K-12 schools since early November.
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William H. Rowe School nurse Jill Webber in her office in Yarmouth on Friday. The Yarmouth schools have received 160 rapid tests. Webber said the rapid tests help the schools immensely, and wishes she had more. “The efficiency and speed at which we can do the testing is going to reduce transmission in schools and the community,” she said.
Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer
Nearly 50 Maine schools and school districts are now using rapid-result coronavirus tests on symptomatic students and staff to quickly identify positive cases and to improve the contact tracing and quarantine process.