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Maine Principals Adopt Policy for Transgender Athletes

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Maine became the fourth state to approve a program that allows transgender high school student-athletes to play for sports teams that match their gender identity. The Maine Principals’ Association last week approved a new policy allowing transgender athletes to play for high school sports teams that match their gender identity.

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Sweet Deal: Trade Group Helps USDA Revamp Maple Syrup Grading System

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“I think it will be good for the industry as a whole,” Maine Maple Syrup Association Vice President Kevin Brannen told the Associated Press. It turns out that USDA was a little behind the curve on the issue: Vermont and Maine, both known for their syrup production, had made the change first.

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Governors Association Helps Members Leverage Possibilities of the Great Outdoors

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Governors from a number of states, including Maine, Oregon, Vermont, Montana, and Nevada, took part in the network’s launch last week. Nikki Guilford, NGA’s interim executive director and chief of staff, noted that the association’s roots are actually in conservation.

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Emergency Call Groups Aim to Update Standards, Systems

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The main purpose of all of this is to provide the best service available to the American public in order to provide service in a more timely fashion, being able to move information associated with that 9-1-1 call to field responders and beyond field responders—so emergency rooms, etc. Currently, two U.S.

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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

Reid All About it

The main event was chicken (instead of veal) piccata with steamed asparagus (another menu deviation because, oh my, I knew asparagus in that sauce would be so good and it was) and bucatini amatriciana. We started with crostini topped with a spread made from cannellini beans, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, basil pesto, salt and pepper.

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Essay Contest Harnesses Student Voices to Fight Hazing

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Other allegations of hazing in Vermont , Oklahoma , and Ohio all highlight NFHS’s concern over the “growing hazing epidemic,” Hopkins said. “I Hopkins hoped to put a greater focus on high school students. I often say we’re just shining a flashlight on a problem that really needs a spotlight.

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Group Aims to Help School Counselors Face Growing Caseloads

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Only New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, and the U.S. The cuts have really encouraged us to continue to focus on our main message around how school counseling is important to academic success,” said Sparks. “We California’s ratio was the highest in the U.S. Virgin Islands have a ratio better than ASCA’s recommended 250 to 1.