Maine Connections Academy, a virtual school, grades 7-12, 406 students, 36 on the waiting list. MCA has 63 students (15.5 percent) special ed students; 40.4 percent receive free or reduced lunch.

Four years after Maine Virtual Academy opened, the state’s second online charter school is struggling with absenteeism, a low graduation rate and weak test scores. The school, which is looking ...

AUGUSTA — Maine’s newest charter school, Maine Virtual Academy, has seen 25 percent of its student body withdraw from the school since it opened this fall and continues to have a high number ...

Cornville Regional School received $242,329 and the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences received $189,834 from the U.S. Department of Education under the three-year grant program.

The commission can authorize up to 10 public charter schools during the first decade of Maine’s charter school law, which was authorized by the Legislature last year.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s charter school commission has put a proposed Portland school involved in a high-profile controversy on track to open this fall.

In a 4-3 vote, the commission denied an application for the Maine Virtual Academy and unanimously voted against the Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School.

“Gov. Paul LePage signed L.D. 1553 into law on June 29, 2011, making Maine the 41st state to allow public charter schools.