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Lee Academy (Maine)
Lee Academy is a private boarding and day high school in Lee, Maine, United States, founded in 1845 as a teacher training school, and now serving grades 9–12.History of Lee Academy


Overseas expansion

In 2005, Lee Academy signed an agreement with officials in the to establish the first American-style high school in China. The agreement called for schools to be established in , and < ...
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Lee, Maine
Lee is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. It was incorporated in 1832. The community was named for Stephen Lee, an early settler. The population was 916 at the 2020 census. Lee has been home to Lee Academy since 1845. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water. Lee is about from Interstate 95 and the same distance from Lincoln."Lee Academy continues growth in Asia"Archive
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Shenzhen American International School
Shenzhen American International School (SAIS, ) is an American international school in Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. SAIS is a PreK-8 school that uses PBL (Project Based Learning) as its teaching philosophy, and is heavily influenced by the High Tech High charter schools in San Diego, the Buck Institute for Education, Edutopia, as well as the Maker Movement in general. SAIS hosts a school Maker Faire every November, has one of Shekou's first school makerspaces (MakerSAIS), and mounts an Exhibition of Learning each spring. it is one of eight schools in Shenzhen designated for children of foreign workers. Initially a China campus of Lee Academy of Maine, it was approved by the Ministry of Education of China in 2005. Due to issues regarding land, by 2008 it had not yet been built. It was originally in another location in Nanshan District. The school opened in its current Shekou location in January 2014.
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Lee Academy (Maine) Alumni
Lee Academy can refer to more than one educational institution in the United States: * Lee Academy (Arkansas), based in Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas. * Lee Academy (Maine), based in Lee, Maine. * Lee Academy (Mississippi) Lee Academy is a grade 7–12 private school in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The school opened in 1970 as a segregation academy, with an initial enrollment of 654 students. In 1970, when Clarksdale submitted to integration, the public schools closed ..., based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. * Lee Academy, based in Bishopville, South Carolina. {{schooldis ...
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Schools In Penobscot County, Maine
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory education, compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the ''School#Regional terms, Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational ...
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Private High Schools In Maine
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Everett McLeod
Everett McLeod Sr. (died December 20, 2010) was an American politician from Maine. McLeod, a Republican, was a member of the Maine House of Representatives for District 11 which included parts of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot Counties from 2004 to 2010. In his final term, outgoing Democratic Governor John Baldacci John Elias Baldacci (born January 30, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 73rd Governor of Maine from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. During h ..., who had known McLeod for 15 years, traveled to McLeod's home in Lee to swear him in due to illness. He served as a trustee/director at Lee Academy. References Year of birth missing 2010 deaths People from Penobscot County, Maine Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives {{Maine-politician-stub ...
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Quebec City
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Orono, Maine
Orono () is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. Located on the Penobscot and Stillwater rivers, it was first settled by American colonists in 1774. They named it in honor of Chief Joseph Orono, a sachem of the indigenous Penobscot nation who long occupied this territory. In the nineteenth century, the town became a center of the lumber industry. Sawmills on the rivers were powered by the water, and logs were floated downriver on the Penobscot for shipping and export from coastal ports. Since 1865 it has been the location of the University of Maine, established as a land-grant institution and the state's flagship educational institution. In the fall of 2018, the university enrolled 11,404 students at Orono. Not including university residents, the town's population was 11,183 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and is water. The town is divided by the Stillwater Rive ...
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Bangor Daily News
The ''Bangor Daily News'' is an American newspaper covering a large portion of central and eastern Maine, published six days per week in Bangor, Maine. The ''Bangor Daily News'' was founded on June 18, 1889; it merged with the ''Bangor Whig and Courier'' in 1900. Also known as ''the News'' or ''the BDN'', the paper is published by Bangor Publishing Company, a local family-owned company. It has been owned by the Towle-Warren family for four generations; current publisher Richard J. Warren is the great-grandson of J. Norman Towle, who bought the paper in 1895. Since 2018, it has been the only independently owned daily newspaper in the state. History The ''Bangor Daily News''s first issue was June 18, 1889; the main stockholder in the publishing company was Bangor shipping and logging businessman Thomas J. Stewart. Upon Stewart's death in 1890, his sons took control of the paper, which was originally a tabloid with "some news, but also plenty of gossip, lurid stories and scandals. ...
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Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. The largest state by total area in New England, Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other U.S. state. Approximately half the area of Maine lies on each side of the 45th parallel north in latitude. The most populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta. Maine has traditionally been known for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily f ...
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Chengdu
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Shijiazhuang
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