Education

Forty-five Maine prisoners have been hired by outside companies to do remote jobs from their cells. A few are earning more than corrections officers.

Hartford Public Schools alumna Leslie Torres-Rodriguez leaves behind a legacy of programs, curriculum and resources for the city’s Latino students and educators.

New hurdles by the Trump administration are unnerving some international students hoping to make it back to campus.

In Hampshire Superior Court, in Northampton, Mass., a judge denied an emergency motion by the the Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools to stop a former employee from being reinstated to a job she was fired from.

After what might feel like a fleeting summer break, most Massachusetts schools start the new year this week. In Holyoke, Mass., students started Monday and after a decade of state receivership, decisions about the district are once again back in the hands of school committee members.

Some Boston realtors who work in neighborhoods near large universities attribute the slowdown to new student visa processing protocols under the Trump administration.

The state program provides up to $20,000 in relief over four years to qualified borrowers.

The school's executive director said the reputational damage done by the Agency of Education's probe had cost I.N.S.P.I.R.E. too many students to continue operating.

Enrollment has declined in more of Maine school districts over the last five years than the national average, according to new research.

Congress defunded adult education programs in July then reversed course two weeks later. But that money still has not reached New Hampshire providers who have been unable to hire for the fall semester.