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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PublishedFebruary 10, 2015
Commission calls for Maine to boost college aid
The overall cost of all the recommendations in the report would exceed $30 million annually in new funding.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2015
Glenn Cummings emphasizes Maine roots as he vies to lead USM
The interim president of UMaine Augusta and a professor at the University of Southern Maine, he is one of three candidates for the job.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2015
Report says state needs to do more to help hungry children in Maine
A legislative task force finds that many students who qualify for free or reduced price meals at schools aren’t getting them.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2015
Skyrocketing tuition: ‘Paying more … not getting more’
Expenses for maintaining infrastructure and administration can have an impact on the cost of higher education, but the biggest culprit remains the erosion in state funding.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2015
How three Maine students deal with debt
Three vignettes show how these Maine students face off their college debt.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2015
First of 3 candidates for USM presidency visits campus
Jose Sartarelli, chief global officer and dean of the business school at West Virginia University, says his top priorities would be boosting enrollment and fundraising.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2015
Maine’s second virtual school gets OK to open this fall
Maine Virtual Academy plans to contract with K12 Inc. of Herndon, Virginia, the nation’s largest online education company, for academic services.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2015
USM pares presidential choices to three candidates
Glenn Cummings, interim president at UMaine Augusta, a provost-vice president at a college in New Jersey, and a dean of business at West Virginia University are the three finalists.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2015
University system to consolidate administrative units
Trustees are also overhauling academics, divesting coal holdings and selecting USM presidential finalists.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2015
UMaine System to consolidate administration, keep 7 campuses and presidents
Trustees also divest some coal investments, and have identified finalists for the position of USM president.
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