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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PublishedNovember 16, 2015
University of Maine System had $18 million operating loss in last fiscal year
Officials blame rocky financial markets and severance costs after staffing cuts; trustees approve a conceptual plan for a center for online learning.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2015
Bowdoin says new rules, awareness led to increase in rape reports in 2014
School officials say the figures can be misleading because not all of the 17 reported rapes occurred last year.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2015
Bowdoin campus on edge after report of rape in college-owned apartment
The student didn’t know her attacker, says the college, which reported 17 rapes in 2014, some of them from prior years.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2015
UMaine Orono expects $7.2 million budget gap for next fiscal year
The gap is about the same as in the current $242 million budget, which officials handled without cutting staffing or programs.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2015
New president aims to rebuild, stabilize, ‘heal’ USM
Despite a projected $6 million budget gap, no staff or program cuts are expected for at least a year.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2015
Poland man surrenders after barricading himself in house following domestic incident
Police spent hours outside the home of Michael Winslow Sr., 65, who now faces a variety of domestic violence charges.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2015
Maine NAACP chapters operating without national approval
Officials at the regional and national levels of the organization won’t say why the Portland and Bangor chapters are classified as inactive.
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PublishedOctober 28, 2015
Maine scores higher than national average on ‘Nation’s Report Card’
A dip in the state’s score from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress test reflects a national trend.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2015
Two groups pitch charter school proposals to Maine commission
Snow Pond Arts Academy would be a performing arts high school in Sidney, and Acadia Academy would open a pre-K-through-sixth-grade charter school in the Lewiston-Auburn area.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2015
Complaint, probe apparently led to resignation of longtime city official Rachel Talbot Ross
Portland won’t provide details, but records show the multicultural affairs director was put on leave a day after an apparent dispute with workers at a private parking lot.
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