In 2023, Wiscasset and other towns dealt with how to get and keep workers, improve residents’ and businesses’ internet access and, in Wiscasset’s case, how to protect the wastewater treatment plant from the rising water of climate change.
Thank you, outgoing (in June) Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Kathleen Pastore, for having been one of those administrators who makes our job easier by being accessible and forthcoming. That helps a lot whenever we hear about something readers.
“Statistically, students are six months to a year behind where they normally would be due to COVID and the impact it has had on schools and student learning,” Lucy Preston, Wiscasset School Department math interventionist, told the school committee.
Time is what teachers need to be effective educators. That is the premise behind Interim Superintendent of Schools Robert “Bob” England’s proposal to have Wiscasset schools adopt an early release day (ERD) every week on Wednesdays “to increase the.
Wiscasset Elementary School Principal Kathleen Pastore sees a bigger concern than being down a half-time assistant principal after Laura Mewa resigned. Pastore told the school committee July 12, the more pressing need is for a full-time school.