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Related In addition, the mayor said the panel should “make recommendations to city and school elected officials and staff on policies, practices and procedural changes that will ensure measurable reductions in poverty in Lewiston.” Cayer said the city and schools spend millions of dollars annually to reduce the symptoms of poverty. Reducing it, he has often said, would help everybody. “Everyone in this community, whether a CEO making six figures or a family barely getting by, brings value to our community, and we are seeking a collaborative effort to reduce poverty,” he said in a prepared statement. “Building a community that allows every member to thrive is what improves our well-being.” ....
Read Article Bill Grant, director of adult education in Lewiston, and Farwell Elementary School Principal Amanda Winslow speak during a session with Harlem Children’s Zone executives in 2020. Steve Collins/Sun Journal file photo LEWISTON After two years of study, Lewiston’s leaders unveiled a preliminary plan Monday to tackle the poverty that has thwarted the dreams of many families for generations by focusing first on the city’s youngest residents. In a report delivered to the School Committee on Monday, the Lewiston Subcommittee on Poverty called for a communitywide effort to begin breaking the cycle of poverty by concentrating on “ambitious but achievable targets for change.” ....
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.” ....
“Everybody wants it to be gone,” Poliquin said. “Everybody wants to forget about it.” True. And yet, while nearly everyone feels sadness at what’s been lost, especially the death of more than 330,000 Americans from COVID-19 since March, some also look back on these strange, lonely months and see glimmers of something valuable, even comforting. “A warm aura of strength continued to preside” even during this “year of turbulence,” said Fowsia Musse, executive director of Maine Community Integration. A plywood present sits Wednesday on the front lawn at Hunter Sweet’s home in Auburn. The local physician made the gift as a way to offer hope to his community. “We always decorate for the holidays, but I wanted to do something more symbolic this year,” Sweet said. “…We get to decide what is in the present. We get to put whatever inside the box that we want to.” ....