I tell you this because terrible tales of the Elan School in Maine have emerged from recent hearings to determine if Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, 39, should be tried as an adult for the 1975 ...

Their parents, Ken and Sandy Gordon, enrolled Mitchell at the Elan School in 2009 on the recommendation of a friend, and enrolled Zach at the Poland campus last year. Zach said he didn’t really ...

Elan, a private boarding school for troubled kids, had operated at a former camp in rural Poland from 1970 to 2011, until vocal former students and residents ran an online campaign to shut it down.

Elan School, once marketed as a behavioral treatment center for troubled youth, gained notoriety for its harsh disciplinary ...

The Elan School, which closed in 2011, was known as a place for troubled teenagers. The annual fee for parents was $55,000 per child. Former students have come forward over the years to say they ...

The Elan School in rural Maine is still beating kids into shape. The tough-love school that put manners on Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel after a drunken-driving accident still believes in confronta… ...

The Elan School’s buildings had been vacant since it closed in 2011. There was no electricity in the building that burned. It was fully engulfed by the time firefighters arrived Sunday morning, ...

Williams was sent to the Maine Youth Center, then to the Elan School, after getting into trouble. Newell said she and her father, now 74, want answers. “I want to know,” she said.

Under the charter school law, a charter application that is denied can be appealed with a petition signed by 1,000 residents or 2 percent of the residents who are 18 years or older of the district ...

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