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Rob Liebow, superintendent of the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) from 2004 to 2012, has been hired as a consultant to the school board committee that is exploring options for changing the way the system is structured.
Outgoing Cape Elizabeth superintendent ‘steady anchor’ during pandemic Wolfrom is retiring at the end of the school year after spending three years locally and more than 20 years statewide working as an educator and administrator. Share Donna Wolfrom, 69, seen here in 2017 file photo, is retiring this year after three years as Cape Elizabeth superintendent. She worked for school districts in Maine for more than 30 years. File photo Donna Wolfrom has been the superintendent for Cape Elizabeth schools for three years, but prior to that she worked for districts in Maine for 30 more. Now, s...
New school system structure proposed BAR HARBOR — As currently structured, the Mount Desert Island Regional School System is cumbersome, inefficient and an absolute bear to manage, according to a committee of school board members. Of course, school administrators and board members have known that for years. But now the committee has recommended a specific alternative – the Regional School Unit (RSU) model. Nearly everything about the way the individual schools currently operate would remain the same. In each town, the school principal would propose and the elected school co...