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June 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Former Westbrook Superintendent Reza Namin, who resigned in March, is one of five finalists for a national superintendent-of-the-year award.

The National Association of School Superintendents announced the finalists Thursday. The other four are from Colorado, South Carolina, Louisiana and Wisconsin.

Theresa Daem, the association’s executive director, wrote in a news release that Namin’s outstanding achievements in Westbrook included the development of a strategic plan for the district, reduction in drop-out rates and the initiation of virtual high school courses.

Namin, who came to Westbrook two years earlier from the Ralph C. Mahar School District in Orange, Mass., announced in March that he had accepted a job as superintendent of the Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School District in central Massachusetts. He planned to stay through the end of the school year, but the Westbrook School Committee asked him to step down, as the district faced a budget crisis.

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Group touts plan for charter schools in Maine

February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Community School puts together a budget from donations and tuition payments from eight districts that send students. A charter school law would give the school a steadier stream of funding, said Joseph Hufnagel, who directs the school’s residential program.

Mike Muir said a charter school law would allow his virtual high school program, which works with a dozen Auburn students, to work with more districts.

And the law would let the school in Cornville reopen, after it was closed last year by School Administrative District 54.

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Educational overhaul looms for Sanford, SAD 60

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

While the training of faculty and staff will begin right away, other changes will not go into effect until fall when the new learning pathways coordinator begins working with first-year high school students and first- and second-year technical school students (juniors and seniors) and Virtual High School.

“The online high school learning program will allow students for whom their needed pathway to high school completion does not exist at Sanford High School to go online and take the courses they need to complete their pathway, for example Mandarin Chinese language or associate degree courses not offered at York County Community College,” St. Cyr said.

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Our View: Online classes cross many more borders than one

September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

That expansion of expertise enriches the variety of courses available in any location, greatly increasing the value of that institution’s diploma.

This year, 43 Maine schools are participating in the course offerings from Virtual High School Global Consortium, which offers more than 300 courses online, including “peacemaking,” advanced placement statistics, constitutional law, pre-veterinary medicine and environmental science.

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