Spurning an offer to meet with President Kalikow, they hold a two-hour protest of funding cuts.
Noel K. Gallagher
Noel Gallagher covers K-12 and higher education issues statewide. Her stories are a mix of breaking news and trend stories. In recent years, they’ve ranged from why college costs so much, the launch of the state’s first charter schools, how a school welcomed a transgender student and why Maine schools have a hard time finding teachers. She’s enough of a news nerd to enjoy sitting through legislative education committee meetings and hours-long school board meetings so you don’t have to.
The Maine Press Association has honored Noel’s work, but she says she writes for the readers, in the firm belief that an informed citizenry is key to a healthy democracy.
Noel is a California native who has worked at wire services, online websites and newspapers across the country. She was in Washington D.C. during the early Clinton years, covering AIDS activism in 1990s San Francisco, documenting the business of wine in Sonoma County and riding out the boom and bust cycle of the early Internet era in early 2000s Silicon Valley. She arrived in Maine at the beginning of the recession and wrote quite a bit about the downturn here.
In her free time, Noel writes the occasional cookbook review, spends an inordinate amount of time at the Portland Public Library and hangs out with her three fabulous kids and wonderful husband. She is not a former member of the band Oasis.
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Prospect of bigger classes not sitting well with USM faculty, students
They say USM’s drive for fiscal efficiency will hurt academic quality and create a ‘diploma mill.’
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USM president: School must redefine its mission
She tells an all-campus meeting that it’s time for a smaller ‘metropolitan university’ where students have a direct role in the nearby towns.
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USM president proposes deep, ‘painful and disruptive’ cuts
The UMaine System is facing a $36 million deficit. Reaction to the proposed cutbacks in USM faculty, staff and programs is immediate and highly critical.
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After years of cutting, Portland school budget seeks to bolster staff
The superintendent’s budget asks voters for a $4 million spending increase that would require taxes to go up.
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USM ready to lay out deep cuts, rebuild bridge to its future
It needs to come up with $14 million in savings and revenues as part of an overall campus restructuring effort.
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Alfond Foundation to award $500 to all Maine babies
The foundation has awarded nearly 23,000 grants worth almost $11.5 million since establishing the program in 2009.
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Revised, more practical SAT welcomed in Maine
Reactions are positive as the test provider says it will drop the mandatory essay and obscure vocabulary and return to a 1,600-point scale.
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Lottery held to fill Baxter Academy’s new student spots
One of five charter schools in the state, the academy had more than 100 apply for 85 student openings.
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Charter school commission undecided on probe of Lewiston application
Two members say they felt misled by the application for the Lewiston-Auburn Academy Charter School, but opinions are divided on whether it merits an investigation.