Education Partnership Snares $100,000 Grant

ORONO – The Penobscot River Educational Partnership, which includes the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, has received a $100,000 state grant to help area school districts operate more efficiently.

Owen Maurais, executive director of the partnership, said the Maine Municipal Bond Bank Credit Quality Improvement Grant will help partnering school districts – serving 9,000 children – to streamline operations in business and accounting, food service, environmental health and safety and through an online substitute teacher call system.

“This is the largest grant that we have received,” said Maurais, a former Old Town schools superintendent.

The grant will allow partnership schools to consolidate some operations, starting in the 2007-08 school year, or even sooner, Maurais said.

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